WordPress Tavern notes that WordPress is spelled with a capitalized “P” and asks whether or not people trust companies that misspell it as “WordPress.”
No. What I distrust is when the WordPress core makes me install a plugin just to keep it from altering my content.
I blogged about this back in 2009 when Automattic implemented the “WordPress” autocorrect on WordPress.com and Lorelle VanFossen claimed it was making a mountain out of a molehill.
But the problem is not the specific change that is implemented, but the underlying attitude and immaturity that it reveals. Modifying content like that is not acceptable in my book. Imagine if Google decided, for example, to modify any instances of “google” in search results or cached pages to “Google.” The issue wouldn’t be that this particular instance is harmful–though in many cases it could be as the automated content modification to “WordPress” can cause problems–but rather that once the software starts making these sorts of decisions for me, my trust in it and the people responsible for it starts to plummet.