> Automatt does not own all the directories in the world, come on. No, only all the ones on WP.org. (So why are those different domains to begin with? They sho

> Automatt does not own all the directories in the world, come on. No, only all the ones on WP.org. (So why are those different domains to begin with? They should just put the whole shebang on automattic.com, since that seems to be what wp.org actually is. Smacks of deceptive marketing.) > They got blocked from the free resources they depended on (and so many of their subscribers depended on) So how "free" were those resources in the first place, and in which sense, if they can "get blocked"? > The nice thing is WP and co have made a full copy of all the things available to them to host on their own servers and the GPL allows them to fork and make their wordpress sites pull from their own directory. Sure. But then they get to call their fork something else; that's how forking works. (cf Iceweasel /Firefox.) And since they own the directory structure on wp.org, they can make a new directory for it.