Re: Matt/Automattic making sure WordPress isn't used to do bad things by bad actors: Lord knows I've given Matt specifically a lot of very harsh criticism when it comes to accessibility, and I still think he's earned all of it along with the possibility of future criticism, but when it comes to making sure WordPress doesn't get used to do bad stuff by bad people, I'm going to have to come to his defense. I'm doing so because the GPL, (under which WordPress is licensed), makes it clear that the people who download and use WordPress can do whatever they want with it, and further, anyone can download and use it and pass it around. So even if Matt were inclined to keep bad things from happening with it, (I have no idea if he is or isn't, but I'm not inclined to believe that he has some secret desire for bad things to happen or anything), he quite literally can't do a damn thing about it. WordPress is licensed under the GPL because it was forked from something else that was licensed from the GPL, and that license provides no mechanism for any kind of exit. I'm not a lawyer, and I have no idea if the GPL version 2 can be retroactively modified to allow for moral decision-making with regard to distribution and right-to-use. But if that's possible, then the people anyone who wants to change this, (and I'm not sure I can exclude myself from that group anymore), has to convince RMS and his associates at the Freedom Software Law Center, and good luck with that.