Confusion between Thesis and WordPress

Right now there is a big confusion between the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, and the creator of the Thesis Premium-Theme, Chris Pearson, about the fact that Thesis should be built under the GPL-License. Matt Mullenweg insists on the fact that every software, theme or plugin that is built on a platform should automatically use the same license that the platform uses. But the question is why?

Why does a authority like Matt Mullenweg starts a discussion like that by spreading some statements which leave a lot of open space for free interpretation and in the end just causes more confusion instead of clearing the situation. Even during the discussion Matt Mullenweg says that even 100.000 Users just dont really count for WordPress because they have 25 Million users. WTF???!! Is that the spirit of the community that WordPress was built on?

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Today I am going to post a different kind of post. A post which has not really to do something with internet marketing, but which I think is a great manifesto from a friend of mine about attitude and behavior.  So enjoy the thoughts of someone I know very well and who is a true gentleman:

THE GENTLEMAN MANIFESTO

What is wrong in this world nowadays? I often see a lot of things happening around. Everybody can see how values loose their value in the eyes of mankind. But is that the way mankind really wants to live? The times have raised people to be a kind of instant society. Everyone just wants to (...)
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