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has matt mullenweg ever heard of “promissory estoppel”. that's the legal concept in common law that you can't promise something and then go back on your word if someone actually relied on that promise. just. throwing that one out there
one of my favourite legal terms btw. both of those words feel very made up, especially estoppel. if a court decides to use this against you, they… estop you. you are estopped. not making that up. it's real and the concept it describes is actually very straightforward
bonus: it's referred to as a “shield and not a sword” because you can't sue someone for breaking a promise per se, but if, for example, someone tries to sue you over something they said they wouldn't sue you over, they can potentially be “estopped”
@hikari what is e-stopped called when it happens offline,
@hikari it sounds to me like a kind of food made out of the concept of stop. Probably French. Estoppel of laches and mixed chives
@mcc conceptually a youtube poop of this but the output is food
@hikari WPE threw that one out there too (it’s one of their claims in the complaint they filed; a complaint which is incredible, Matt is so screwed)
@demize oh right i should just read the complaint huh. and yeah matt is incredibly screwed and i think at this point his only way out is an uno reverse card: paying wp engine 8% of automattic's revenue to make them drop the lawsuit
@hikari I did a play-by-play of my reading in the one Discord server we share, if you want my thoughts (mostly just quotes from the complaint, admittedly, but they were good quotes)