Thanks for sharing this important story, Jeff.

After Matt's blowup with Chris Pearson and with WordCamp barring anyone who ever offer non-GPL code, I find using patent-encumbered code within the WordPress project quite hypocritical. There seem to be more and more of these weasel instances as Automattic grows.

At what point will we no longer be a community project with shared and consistent values? Wordcamp Europe was fabulous and there are many committed free software advocates in the community. Really re-energizing. On the other hand, the bison also seemed too numerous to kill until 1870. Fifteen years later all the bison were gone.