This is an impressive release and BuddyPress itself is an inspiring testament to what people can achieve when they pull together and create something that everyone in the world can use and build upon.

It is also a thuddingly definitive answer to all those who think that worthwhile things must carry a price tag, that they can only exist behind pay-walls.

BuddyPress cuts through all the FUD, all the deliberate misinterpretation that has been flying around recently and reminds us, as a community, that WordPress is about more, much more, than a few guys whipping themselves into hysteria because they feel that WordPress, and all the effort that has gone into it over the years, hasn't made it easy enough for them to cash in.

What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone?

- W.B. Yeats