[raverbashing]

Matt needs to calm down, talk to their lawyers and keep the ego in check

Yes you released WP as GPL or whatever, you'll get competitors like WP Engine.

Sure, it's your prerogative to block access to plugins, but that won't win you any points, quite the contrary. And now there's a reason for WPE to come up with a competing store

[graemep]

Wordpress is a fork of a GPL licensed blog CMS so they had no choice but for it to be GPL.

[Terretta]

> Matt needs to calm down ...

... means, "this seems more important to Matt than it does to me" and "he should just accept it shouldn't matter to him any more than it does to me".

Which, when paraphrased, explains why the comment tends to further provoke those who are passionate about something dear to them.

Often it's dear, and they are uncalm, because it came from them or is part of them in some way. That's the anti-calm appealed to by "think of the children", an inciting phrase. We're to recognize that our creations are worth our care.

Put another way: not all indignation is unrighteous.