It's still a protected trademark, just that people have called everything a dremel
But is gatekeeping the configuration files or wrapping around the software really modification?
I think we should agree to disagree that it was modified enough here.
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You guys... we live in a post-reading society /hj
Yes they can. It’s actually WordPress, so it’s nominative.
At most, they just ambiguously used "Powered by WordPress Experts" once. I don't see how the evidence misleads people into thinking there was an endorsement.
IMO, dumb people confuse stuff all the time, like the Minecraft Gamepedia with the Minecraft Wikia back then. The meager amount of evidence presented does not convince me that WP Engine has done any actual harm to the WordPress brand.
But yeah, the smart way out would've been adding a "WP Engine is not associated with WordPress.org", at least one below the "WP ENGINE®, VELOCITIZE®, TORQUE®, EVERCACHE®, and the cog logo service marks are owned by WPEngine, Inc." footer. All in the past now, though. At the best both companies are tomfools.
that's a local text editor. CMSes are for e.g. hosting blogs
That's fair. Interesting how blanket advertising often means the opposite of better.
Like JohnEdwa said, using a trademark to refer to someone else's product is considered nominative fair use: "referencing a mark to identify the actual goods and services that the trademark holder identifies with the mark."
There's Contao, Drupal, Blogger, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace...
They released 5.4 in August.