In reply to Terence Milbourn.

Terence,

The first fork-in-the-road that Matt has to decide upon is whether-or-not the goal of WordPress is to either:

1. Help create an Ideal Utopian World (that I think he sometimes learns towards, but historically is very dangerous, and always ends up with censorship and thought control), OR

2. Sustain the creation of Content Management/Publishing Software that can be used by any Human Individual as he/she sees fit regardless of the content (think Political Correctness screening in Microsoft's OneDrive and Google's caving in to the Communist Chinese Government's continual mandate of search censorship).

IF Matt's main goal is ONLY to acquire a larger, global, statistical user base; then at some point in the future Automattic will come under extreme corporate, social, and political pressures to accept censorship to stay in business (already I've seen requests for this within the WordPress.org forums from individuals who's "Feelings" have been hurt by another user). Leave this business to WordPress dot com.

For WordPress dot org, how about Matt searching for supporters who will help fund the launch of a WordPress multi-million dollar satellite/server platform designed ONLY for WordPress dot org users, that cannot be controlled by anyone other than the end user, once set up. I'm being somewhat facetious, but you get the drift.

Main Decision for Matt: will the continued development of WordPress management and software support Actual Individual Freedom, or Not? What's the goal, and how will it be implemented?