tuning in on this quite late and all but mainly just wanted to say that this is quite a 'wack move' from the forces behind wordpress.com, towards both the users that were using the theme as well as the community contributing to wordpress as a whole.

because the fact that is really bothering me is that 'coraline' (which has apparently been coded by the automattic folks themselves) is a straight rip-off of 'cutline', not giving any credit for the design or the initial concept of the 'cutline' theme at all.

so basically, is this the way wordpress.com suggests people should deal with other people's intellectual property? because that's not very different from the main reason they brought up for the whole 'thesis business' being the devil.

this seems completely 'kindergarten' as in immature to me and a great way to cause 'FUD' surrounding your very own product.