@Jeffro - I think that the argument of Matt buying these sites to keep them online is very very weak. Both these websites have content, traffic and a readership. Their value is largely determined by its content and traffic.

There would have been dozens of people fighting to buy them had they been placed for auction on a marketplace such as Flippa. Do you think someone would have paid $10k+ for this website and then simply deleted the content?

Websites such as these need to remain impartial and they need to be critical. By placing both these sites in millions of dashboards he can control public opinion of WordPress and Automattic products. That isn't right.

For me, that is why WTC was such a poor blog. All it did was list the plugins and themes that had been listed. It never challenged anything Matt or WordPress did. It never added anything new.