@Bill - Out of curiosity Bill, is that your real name or a pseudo name? What is your real bame if not and what is tour background? Do you have any actual experience running a successful WordPress plugin or theme business or are you basing your opinions of purely that... your opinion?

I'm just curious. Because my company develops arguably the most successful commercial WordPress plugin not developed by Autmattic. Our product is coming up on its 4 year anniversary and was in development for quite a while before that. I have a wealth of hands on knowledge and experience when it comes to just what exactly is involved in developing, growing and supporting a successful WordPress business and product(s) with a very larger user base and a lot of your opinions.. well... are completely off base and some are just flat out incorrect.

What is your experience with selling and supporting commercial WordPress plugins or themes? Because you are extremely opiniated but I'm curious as to if you have the credentials to back up your opinions?

I am well known within the WordPress community for being opiniated and someone who will seak my mind when others won't. But I have done so with experience and success under my belt to back up and support my opinions and thoughts through firsthand experience running a verynauccessful business based around commercial WordPress products.

What have you done to back up your stance on the wide variety of issues that are being discussed here?

This isn't meant to start a flame war. It's a legitimate question and I'm genuinely curious as to what your experience is as far as building a WordPress theme or plugin business that allows you to think you know as much about it and how it should be done as you seem to think you do?