In reply to Chris Pearson.

There’s nothing dishonorable about disagreeing with the application of a license to software extensions.

You built your business and your living using WordPress and you claim not only that the license doesn't apply to you but that your theme has no relation to WordPress.

It's ridiculous to me. The root of this entire issue centers around the licensing and the only thing one has to do is to listen to the debate from 2010 to understand that.

The arguments that Matt Mullenweg puts forth are simple and succinct. Your arguments essentially boil down to "nuh uh" and "not me".

Seriously. Simple points. Can WordPress still operate without Thesis? Yes. Can Thesis operate without WordPress? No. Yet still you claim that Thesis is not dependent upon or in any way derivative of WordPress. It's a WordPress theme.

You could have chosen to build your business on any software.

You wrote your apology post,which I also read - and I'll tell you that I definitely have a soft spot for apologies - and you admitted that you behaved like an asshole in the debate I linked to above. At first I thought that was deserving of some merit, then you started doing the exact same thing again.

Still, 5 years later Matt's arguments are measured and you refer to Matt Mullenweg as "the eye of sauron", as if to imply that you are somehow oppressed by the good living you've earned off of WordPress. FFS man, grow up.

As for the domain issue, you should have bought it when you had the chance. Matt had as much right to buy it as did I or anyone else on this forum. At first I thought it was kind of a smack down as well, to be honest, but I also understand that there may be other reasons for that purchase, to which I'm not privy.

donnachas speculation on this was excellent - https://wptavern.com/mullenweg-and-pearson-square-off-on-patents-gpl-and-trademarks#comment-70876

Even if it was nothing more than a smack down by Matt Mullenweg I'm more than willing to give him a benefit of the doubt and a pass because, in my eye, he has done far more good than you have.

I'm just a regular dude earning a living with WordPress. I didn't want to speak up on this at all because it really pisses me off, and everything that I wanted to say has already been said by people far more articulate than I. But you and others seem to think that the entire community is somehow against Matt on this and you need to know that this isn't the case.