Why Matt Wullenweg is a Butthole Surfer

No,
He didn't play backup in the Band, although I personally wish he would have done so instead of getting involved with the World Wide Web.

So he has this website Wordpress.com Oh.. Excuse me it's WordPress.com with a Capitol P.

That's right, the guy is Sooo arrogant that he has written a script to go on everyone of his users websites and Change all the P's in the word WordPress to a Capitol P.

This may not be news to a lot of you.

Lets examine this.

As I understand it, WordPress (The Script from wordpress.org) is as different from WordPress (The web hosting site from wordpress.com) as Day and Night.

Wordpress the script was around long before wordpress the hosting site.

Wikipedia has this to say.."WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog which was developed by Michel Valdrigh"

Matt knew about and used b2/cafelog before it ever became WordPress.

Wikipedia has this to say, "In June 2002 Mullenweg started using the b2/cafelog blogging software to complement the photos he was taking on a trip to Washington D.C."

After Valdrigh stopped working on his b2/cafelog script, Matt picked it up to make it more up to date. He was joined by others on the project. He may have been responsible for giving WordPress it' name in it's current incarnation, but he was by no means the originator of it.

What Matt did was make a hosting service where he could allow for the hosting of websites that uses the wordpress script.

Matt decided to trademark the name of his hosting company.
As his trademark goes the name should be correctly spelled as WordPress - with a capitol P.

All that may be fine and well but Bloggers Beware. Read the Terms of Service very Carefully.

Anytime you use any free hosting service all of your content can be subject to ownership and therefore Changed by the hosting company.

You think your content is yours? You think you can copyright your content? Think again! By virtue of hosting it on a free service, the content becomes the property of said service and the agreement you made with them when you signed up SUPERSEDES any notices of copyright you claim to have to your content on your own blog or website!

This is why Matt can get away with changing all the P's on all the users pages.

Now, Let's say I have a blog on Matt's service and I talk about My new gizmo I have created called Wordpress.

Wordpress (with a lowercase P) is a compression tool for Microsoft Word documents. Wordpress the compression tool is trademarked to Me, John Phoenix.

Now if his P changing script comes to my blog and changes my lowercase P to an uppercase P, he better run and find shelter 'Cus I'm coming after him with both barrels loaded!

You better believe It !

John Phoenix