In reply to Nathan Mckay.

I agree with you Nathan Mckay: the whole thing looks bad for all of us and certainly even more for both actors of this drama.

To some extent, it reminds the current EU-Greece drama, where both parties will have a lot to lose and the biggest one has already lost the most. As it is true for the EU, WP has now a blurred public image and this will take some time to be restored.

WP Tavern has done, and still doing, a great reporting job and, at least, this allowed some ignorant people such as myself to better understand the stakes and also have a better insight on how GPL works and what all this means. It reminds me of most cultural events that rely on volunteering and replicates of "happiness engineers", while entrepreneurs fill their pockets with benefits. @donnacha brought some very clever inputs in this regard and all of us should open our eyes wider.

I don't think we should much focus on why and how Matt/Automattic bought this domain as this is their own business and they are free to have their own reasons, neither judge whether Chris has done the right choices. It's also his own business and he certainly had good reasons to do so.

The real question that now emerges from this whole drama is who, at the end, is gaining profit from this whole "free/open" ecosystem. The same happened with the EU-Greece crisis: the final question was not how and if Greece cheated and put the country in such situation but rather how the EU contributed and permitted this to happen and how it will take financial profit from that. While, at the end, their public image's restoration will cost much more.

As a EU citizen, I also fail to see any value in all this EU mess.