In reply to Chip Bennett.

It owns it in all but rights =). JetPack violates policies but is allowed anyway. We have built in Gravatars that violates privacy laws, violates user privacy etc, that is owned by Automattic, we have Akismet also owned by Automattic. Several core members are employees of Automattic or parent company of Automattic or subsidiaries etc. I would say that Automattic related people pretty much control WordPress. Either they are extreme fanboys or they are employees. We all know about capital_p_dangit =).