I'd have to say that while I completely understand why they did it, I disagree with it. It's the type of feature that is fun to joke about in a dev chat, but not something you actually want to implement when you have millions of users.

Implementing it on WordPress.com is different as it is a closed hosted environment.

Content should be free right? Isn't the mission of the open source WordPress project to democratize publishing? I guess it's all about democratizing publishing as long as you spell things the way they tell you to.

I'm not going to lose sleep over it like some people on the hacker mailing list. But I don't agree with it.