Well, to be clear, WordPress.com didn’t exist 20 years ago, nor did Automattic. So this domain wasn’t given away to a billion dollar company, it was given to an

Well, to be clear, WordPress.com didn’t exist 20 years ago, nor did Automattic. So this domain wasn’t given away to a billion dollar company, it was given to an open source developer to build a platform to bring more users and exposure to open source software. Which absolutely happened. We’re talking 20 years ago, which is a lot earlier in the story of open source software! All the scandals over the past several years related to companies profiteering off open source software hadn’t happened yet.