>Even open source web applications don't have this freedom... If wordpress.org were to do this, those users would be in the same boat. It's pretty straightforw

>Even open source web applications don't have this freedom... If wordpress.org were to do this, those users would be in the same boat. It's pretty straightforward to self-host your own WordPress blog. Does WordPress not offer data dumps? WordPress users would be in a very different boat, because they have all the tools they need to rehost their blog, without building anything from scratch.