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This sets a very dangerous precedent - that this software "sold" as free and open source, free as in free beer and free as in speech is not really free at all. This only exposed the fact that the plugin repository was all along centrally managed and Wordpress has never been truly free all along. That if you tick off the overlords, then you can be banned from this critical central repository of plugins. All this for someone customising the way their admin panel looks like and making some changes they had the right to, in the first place.

I think someone should use this as an opportunity to build a better Wordpress clone. You know what, I'm going to do it. I don't care about adoption and market share. I care about freedom. This is not freedom.

It reminds me of the WURFL saga that happened a few decades ago for the exact reason.

And you know what? Even for such a large, mature product, it is full of security issues, bug and has absolutely poor code quality and poor development experience. Did I mention it doesn't even scale without throwing tons of money at it? I will update you guys soon.

/endrant

Thanks.