Alec Kinnear

Thanks for the hands on examples, Johnny. There are even worse ones for those looking.

George, more than half of what Jetpack does on the Cloud could be done locally. This includes Related Posts, Contact Forms, Publicize and Enhanced Distribution.

This “need” for everything to go through Wordpress.com services is exactly what I mean by tilting the playing field. Matt has found a loophole easily exploited at scale. And that’s exactly what he has had Automattic do.

I don’t know if you are sincere in your self-righteous indignation George or if you are just paid to whitewash the money stains off of this purportedly noble endeavour. In any case, what Automattic and Jetpack is doing is anything except something for the community. It’s straight exploitation of a gradually fenced in audience.

Google and Facebook have followed the same playbook. Feed the masses freebies until they fall asleep and then lock the door. It works but it’s hardly open source and it’s hardly community.

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