In reply to Rod Olman.

Just my opinion, but I doubt anything Justin and the team here could publish would have any effect on the portfolio of companies and investors that own the site, or Automattic or anything.
Justin could join the Guttenberg restance with me and I don't think it would have any impact.

I believe Justin is not influenced by who owns the site and does have free reighn and is always writing in good faith.

If I were to perceive anything a conflict of interest to readers would be only he likely knows some of the people involved in the core project as friends (obviously) , and perhaps would feel naturally protective over them as individuals who work hard and are coming under critisism right now as a result of the controversial nature of where core has been going.
I also have many friends working on core so I could understand this. I try to critisism the project direction, and not the people working on it (who I do appreciate)

Just my opinion. The fact we have open comments and most are published I think keeps this site a place we can all openly discuss.