Hi Jeffro,

Thanks for the reply, and sorry for the confusion, I was muddled it's nearly 12pm here! Brain is lagging need sleep.

I guess what I am ultimately getting out is the following: (bear with me!)

Whilst I understand the difference between the hosted and open source versions (this is me not explaining or not going into detail in the first place, so apologies) and Auttomatic being acquired by a large corp. Will WordPress as an open source project cease to exist?

This may seem grandious in gesture but it could potentially become a reality. If the hosted version was purchased outright by, lets say MS. Do you think the open source version would suddenly be treated like an ugly step child, because of its relation to the now M$ owned Auttomatic?

Or do you think that it will be forked?