@JLeuze - I dunno what they are going to do with the wordpress.org forum. That is a tough cookie. As far as taking all the profiles and combining them into one, that will happen and this way, we can see who is really active in the community via the activity streams.

@Andrew - I don't see them placing affiliate links on the page. Instead, I see them just having a page listing of approved GPL commercial theme authors/businesses. But, that is my speculation as to what they will do. We'll have to wait and see what ends up happening.