In reply to Bastian.

@pp
There are quite an amount of people who contribute to WordPress in a non technical way. Those may not be core contributors but they do contribute in some way. Basically the WordPress ecosystem is way too diverse to make any kind of conclusion, like claiming people are only self-interested. These people do exist to. There are also a lot of people who act as a bridge between end users and the community.

In fact I see the opposite happening. The last couple of years big companies are taking over the community and are making the decisions. I’ve seen dedicated contributors for years step back from the community because of the way they’ve been treated by these company folks. This is poison to the community. This also goes for flaming and making assumptions on other people.

Also no one is questioning the intention behind the idea. It’s the execution of the idea. You cannot say, hey you got this for free (which is often not even the case) so you do not have any rights . There is the GPL , which is a big USP for WordPress. Ommiting an act that goes against this is more harmful for WordPress than to go with an EOL.