In reply to Christine.

In response to Christine's comment:
"Matt/Automattic don’t like that DIY Themes violate the GPL, so they purchased Thesis.com as a mild (and expensive) form of revenge."

This is why I personally will try and avoid giving any business to Automattic, and my boss feels the same way - she was following this little saga from the start, and felt that it was entirely driven by Matt.

We spend money on Automattic's services/products because it was our way of supporting WordPress, and we were happy with them, and we liked the Automattic folks we had met at some of the meet ups.

We can't justify spending money on Automattic if this is how they are going to use some of it.

It would be one thing if Matt had funded all of this himself, we could ignore it, he's free to do what he wants with his money. But it left us with a bad feeling that Automattic was putting money and resources into this.

We want the money we spend on Automattic to be put towards improving WordPress and its related services, and this legal dispute does not meet either of those requirements.