@ox - I'm not going to say who it was because of their threats, plain and simple. If you put your thinking cap on and analyze this quote,

If the company business model is to offer a pro version of those plugins and each free plugin in the WordPress plugin repository is used as an advertisement to push users to go that direction, then things start to make a little more sense when it comes to financial gain.

it's not to hard to figure out. But that's as far as I'm going. Why are you so hostile to this topic? You're the only one showing such hostility. By the way, if you're going to litter your comment with f-bombs, your comments won't be published.