In reply to Johnny.

Hopefully you can find time for a critical reading course to help you with words like “unfounded”. In each case, I’ve provided specific examples to back my distaste for Jetpack’s borg approach.

Absolutely. You've failed repeatedly to provide any evidence to back up your claims, such as:

they allow certain plugins to be considered in compliance of GPL which are not in compliance of GPL

Which plugins do we consider fraudulently in compliance of the GPL? Names and links please.

allowing the bundling of multiple plugins into one massive JetPack, putting many individual developers out of work (free bundling this is straight out of Microsoft’s playbook btw), a tactic allowed to Automattic and Automattic only.

What plugins has the .org plugins team (not Automattic) rejected for bundling too many features? Citations, please.

Also, can you give me the name of any specific developer put out of work by the fact that we release code and services for free?

There’s no reason that nearly all of JetPack requires login to WordPress.com but it does.

Factually proven wrong in subsequent comments.

They (Automattic) owe a lot of money to a lot of venture capitalists with very sharp teeth.

What venture capitalists do we 'owe' money to? Some companies own shares in Automattic, but what money do we 'owe' any of them? Amounts and company names, please.

Automattic have lots of great code they entice and sell to their VIP customers but that code is never officially released.

What code do we 'sell' to VIP customers?

Those of us enabling small businesses don’t have that luxury.

Really? Because I can provide you tons of examples of small businesses that sell code to their customers.

Here's a few:

* GravityForms + AddOns
* NinjaForms AddOns
* UkuuPeople AddOns
* Easy Digital Downloads
* Paid Memberships Pro
* Pretty much everything else on https://proplugindirectory.com/

Automattic can cut people off or start charging any time they want, as Automattic notably have done with Akismet – after wiping out every other competitor via the free service

Akismet's free plan has always been free for "personal, non-commercial sites and blogs" up to a specified number of checks per month (and I don't think we even care for occasional overages).

What non-commercial, personal site or blog using Akismet was asked to start paying for it because of usage?