Comment by tsimionescu
19 hours ago
Your whole outlook is against the philosophy of Free Software. The whole point of free software is user freedom. If users can get better/cheaper services from WPEngine than they can from WordPress, and this is putting WordPress out of business: good. Companies should compete on services, not by enforcing a software monopoly.
This is better for users than the alternative. Since they're using open source software, they can always switch back if WordPress starts offering better services, or switch to some new company that can do it even better than either in the future.
Free software has nothing to do with making services cheaper.
It absolutely does. Even Stallman talks explicitly about this - it's one of the reasons why the freedom to do anything, including commercially, with the code is so important.
No, it doesn't. Freedom to commercialize does not mean the movement is designed to make things cheaper.
Nor is it about any obligation to contribute back.
I never said it was.