In reply to richard Ginn.

It’s called, ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you.’

Elementor is not a separate product to WordPress, it’s built on top of WordPress. It’s a fundamental distinction. All those thousands of volunteer hours that have gone into WordPress down the years have, by default, helped to create all those commercial plugins and themes.

It’s like a chef showing you how to create a recipe which you then use to start a restaurant of your own.

So far, so good. Only you then pay someone to stand outside of the other restaurant with a sign that says, ‘don’t eat in here, the food is bad.’

I mean, in ordinary life it’s the kind of thing that would get you a punch on the nose. I think preventing sponsorship of WordCamps is really a very gentle way of dealing with this level of rudeness.