In reply to David Sharpe.

Agreed, Miroslav.

A registration fee would have been ok if it was reasonable - say ten or twenty dollars. Ironically, they probably would have gotten many times more registrations. I certainly gave it a miss coz of the fee.

It just seemed to me a chance for Automattic to take advantage of folks' egos and make a sh*t tonne of money depsite their supposed altruism.

I do often get mixed and conflicting messages from Automattic about their ideals and philosophies.