Hon­estly, I really don't know what to think about this.

I'd rather not add any fuel to what is now a rag­ing wild­fire through­out the web, but I will say this: I wouldn't take money to be in Matt Mullenweg's shoes right now. I'm guess­ing that he'll come back, he'll explain and that will be that.

Some will for­give, some will not. I would imag­ine, how­ever, that the over­whelm­ing major­ity will choose the for­mer, as let­ting a sim­ple mis­take dam­age a truly good prod­uct in such a cat­a­strophic way is, even by my twisted def­i­n­i­tions, a lit­tle rash and unwarranted.

My first reac­tion was to remove all ref­er­ences to WP from this site and start search­ing for/programming a new solu­tion. But that's exactly why I didn't do it — it was a knee-jerk reac­tion. And although I've only spo­ken with Matt a small hand­ful of times and never met the man per­son­ally, he deserves bet­ter than that. Not only do I owe him that cour­tesy, but I feel that the Word­Press com­mu­nity at large does as well.

Granted, peo­ple don't have to agree with what­ever posi­tion or defense the man presents as expla­na­tion, but every­one should at least give him a chance to say it. For such great soft­ware (free), such great sup­port (again, free) and over­all acces­si­bil­ity (notic­ing a trend?) as he and his team have given to the inter­net com­mu­nity, we owe him at least that much.

Let's see how it works out and then nit­pick, okay?