@Andreas Nurbo - There's a world of difference between "a firm stance against commercial plugins" and simply choosing not to list them, something that only a handful of people, who cannot see further than their own narrow self-interest, are noisily demanding they do.

The people behind WordPress, hundreds of them, have spent years working on this project, building it up to the stage at which it is now a platform upon which thousands of people make a good living, and this is something that both the WordPress project and Matt's company, Automattic, actively encourage.

I guess it was predictable that this would not be enough for some people and that, at some point, they would become angry that they cannot simply swoop in and hijack the WordPress.org website for their own promotional purposes.

Well, you can't do that, it is not your project, it is not your website. There is, however, nothing to stop you and all the other commercial plugin authors, who are already benefitting from the platform that WordPress provides, setting up your own site listing commercial plugins.

May I suggest that you name your site Show-Me-The-Money-Press.com and, for your logo, you should have a wizened old hooker shaking her head and saying "No, honey, you gots to pay me first".