In reply to Matt.

What is seriously bothering me about Wordpress right now, is that there appear to be different ethical standards applied to Automattic, Jetpack, certain favoured developers and yourself than to third party developers. This hosting payola issue is just a symptom.

As many have said before, it's the third party developers who built Wordpress and Automattic into the monolith that it is now. What you did very well for a long time is make it easy for us to do so.

It would be great to see that positive and open atmosphere and energy return.