The comments are almost overwhelmingly negative towards the article, yet the article seems (in hindsight) pretty accurate.

> the non-automattic core devs would be able to fork WordPress as it is GPL. Lets cross that bridge when & if it arises. I doubt it will and hope it doesn’t.

> I honestly don’t think there’s a conflict of interests here.

> of course it’s possible for Matt to do as he wishes, but he’s not exactly going to start charging to use WordPress and make billions.