Ok, sorry if you were offended, I guess it was just a case of crossed wires, apologies in particular for writing that you were being a prick, I didn't mean to get personal.

I felt that the statement "Your comment reads like a big, honkin’ promotional ad for StudioPress ... let’s try to keep the facts straight and not bend the truth in our favor" suggested, strongly, that I was somehow misrepresenting facts for my own benefit i.e. being a shill. I felt that this was aggressive, that you were starting an argument and that is was important that I defend what I had written.

My statement about "putting down your competition" was based upon your statement that two of the four products reviewed by Aaron were not frameworks. The creators of those products, your competitors in a commercial sense, could well interpret that as putting them down.

I understand your concern that, although you, personally, did understand what I was saying, you were concerned that others would not. Yes, I accept that I should have been clearer, more exact in what I said - it was, after all, just a hastily typed blog comment - but sloppy phrasing, leading to misunderstanding among some notional others, is a very different thing from what you originally alleged, that I was deliberately "bending the truth".

I agree with you on pricing, people can charge whatever they want, my main criticism of nutty pricing is that it will lead to a car crash situation in which new entrants to the market are charging ridiculous amounts, likely ending up with tiny customer bases with huge expectations and, ultimately, a huge sense that they got screwed. There are plenty of examples of this happening.

Instead, I would like people to realize just how profitable the WordPress market could be if they work it's scale intelligently and price at levels that invite in the masses and discourage piracy - Apple's Appstore could be considered a good example. Ultimately, I want to see free and open themes and plugins continue to flourish, while those who want to turn it into a fulltime job can do so by charging reasonable prices to large numbers of customers rather than nutty prices to just a handful of idiots and large organizations.

Again, sorry to have ruffled your feathers, I have long respected your work and have been following your blog since you were in Korea. Keep up the good work.