@donnacha | WordSkill - I meant apologist not in the sense of saying they're sorry, but rather the "one who speaks in defense" of something sense of the word.

@Dan Cole - there are too many contradictions in your response to make my response brief and I doubt Jeffro wants this to turn into yet another GPL debate.

However, your response at least illustrates that most of the disagreement and criticism of Matt, Jane & Automattic has nothing to do with whether they're good or bad people, but their actions & decisions impacting the WordPress community.

To make matters worse, it's apparently perfectly acceptable to state that people who don't wish to license their work under the GPL are selfish, but criticizing a decision made by Jane is somehow morally wrong?

Give me a break.