This is really awful. Someone has given so much of his time and effort, for free, and this is what he gets for it.

I believe it is time for somebody to help the developers who make Wordpress so popular and in doing so enable a few savvy entrepreneurs to make a ton of money.

I assume that the Wordpress people, so many of them, believed that by providing a free program the spirit of that would continue on into the community, and it worked for a while. But obviously, when something gets popular the sharks come out.

One million users!!!! One million. Unbelievable. 1 crummy dollar from each one of the people who use that plugin and that man would be able to continue his work on an obviously great plugin without having to deal with trying to "monetize" his business.

Does no one but me realize that monetizing and programming are very different skill sets?

I think Wordpress needs to think about setting up something for programmers like this man, maybe something like a kickstarter website where everyone is guilt-ed or encouraged into kicking in a crummy $1 to these programmers who are really contributing to Wordpress and us all. Instead of letting these talented people fall by the wayside because they are pure programmers and are not great at monetizing.

A little less competition and a bit more kindness and perhaps Wordpress will not fall by the wayside too.