In reply to Drew Jaynes.

Thanks for your perspective Drew. My perspectie is probably in some ways quite different than of WP Ninja who are focused exclusively on commercial freemium products.

Over the years Foliovision has primarily provided free plugins at pro level (whether for SEO or WYSIWYG or antispam), with no view to monetise those contributions. Our focus is not on freemium. We offer only one paid plugin out of fifteen, not including other plugins to which we've contributed significantly (probably another half dozen).

We've been building this free software for the community for ten years now. In turn I'd suggest to you that it's free plugin developers like us who have made our collective project, WordPress, so popular. In turn, a little bit of respect for our contribution and our work would not be out of place. The lump it or leave it attitude in your last post feels ungracious.

I also see no reason why we should be on opposite sides, apart from a strong external force pulling in one direction. These improvements - before the commercialisation of WordPress, both by the plugin developers and Automatatic - were made as a community. I'd suggest we should stay a community. No commercial organisation should be allowed to exert overwhelming pressure to overrule the community.