In all honesty, once I get past the idea of around the years around 2500 being past tense, the entire outdated (and vastly only ideological at this point) idea that plugins and themes hosted on .org are "free" is laughable.

I wish WordPress.org would take a more honest approach to the Themes and Plugins directories. The big decision makers in the WordPress world are rapidly attempting to take over many of the popular plugins in order to force people to use their products over what else is available on the market. Essentially insuring there won't be a lot of competition.

I don't know why they aren't doing the same with regard to commercial market places. After all, there are only a few little decisionsleft before WP.org will be hosting plugin author sales pages right on the descriptions tab. The only thing really missing is payment integration which some plugin authors directly link to from their description pages.

I say, "Jump in there and be more honest with what you are doing." They aren't promoting "creativity" in either repository. They are promoting a lot of garbage that really needs the Pro versions to be an asset to a website.

Not all, but a very large portion of Plugins aren't much use if you don't have the "upsell". Let's just put the old idea to sleep and open up the WordPress.org marketplace. Make it official.