Core contributors had originally decided on React while attending WordPress’ community summit in Paris last June, although this decision had not yet been made public when the greater open source community started petitioning Facebook to re-license React.

Grrr.... Open is good, right? Except...

To be really clear what annoys me is the lack of transparency here. A lot of people were spending time thinking about this, debating the merits, advocating for one thing.... when all along a decision was made. Then Matt reversed it (which I agree with and is decision I think he should stick with).

I get that some things will happen behind the scenes but when a decision is made it should be made public.