Jet lag has wiped me out this week, I'm afraid, and I've been unable to reply. What I will say is this, there are more posts on WordPress community sites discussing my CV and dyslexia than the actual content of my post.

Worse of all though, is that the rhetoric of "there's a plugin for that" is now so deeply imbedded in the WP community psyche that they constantly spout it without actually knowing if its true or not. And for the most part, it's not true. Andrew Nacin and I had a wonderful discussion on that very point on this website last month:

Me: https://www.wptavern.com/case-study-on-how-wordpress-won-the-crown#comment-16740
Andrew: https://www.wptavern.com/case-study-on-how-wordpress-won-the-crown#comment-16756
Me: https://www.wptavern.com/case-study-on-how-wordpress-won-the-crown#comment-16776

For me though it comes down to this:

at the 2 Drupal camps I attended last year people debated my content; at the Joomla meet-ups they asked questions; but at the 3 WordPress meetings they debated whether they liked me as a person- http://kevinjohngallagher.com/2012/01/listening-the-core-skill-learning/

In the end though, it comes down to this:
http://kevinjohngallagher.com/2012/01/the-butterfly-effect/

Sadly in the last 7 days I've had 3 ddos attacks, 14 threats (4 "credible") against myself or my family, multiple requests to have me removed from speaking at WordPress events to which I'm already signed up and personally sponsor, and 31 people roll-back their purchase for Open Source Scotland because I'm involved. All because my staff, not me, but the good folks I work with every day, don't want want to use WordPress anymore. I'm being punished by this community, for doing the right thing: listening to my colleagues and my clients.

Congratulations, you're now the bullying jocks you never got to be in high school. Frankly, I think many of you should be ashamed.