In reply to Tod Franklin.

@Tod, you implicitly nailed the attitude that people should treat this "threat to wordpress". It is just a fucking piece of software, not even an animal. The only people that will be impacted from wordpress going down are those that all of their livelihood depends on it, and that will be maybe only the big theme and plugin shops that will have to pivot to other platforms and that might be hard.

For big wordpress hosting companies like automatic and wpengine, it will just mean that they will enjoy less free work on their platforms, but in their current size it probably will not impact them in any major way.

"A threat to WordPress" is the community's equivalent of "Think of the children", just a sound byte meant to make you emotional about something a salesman/politician wants to sell you.