Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

This is one of the sleaziest things I've ever seen. I fear a hard fork of WordPress is now inevitable and unfortunately, it's possibly going to kill the platform, all over one man's ego. How can I now sell my clients on using WordPress for mission critical things if on a whim the owner of WordPress can break my site or lock out my security updates, just because I chose the "wrong" host or plugin? I don't see how the Board can sit by and let this all unfold like this, it's practically business suicide.

TBF WordPress was also created by two men and one of them was Matt. Of course it only achieved it's success through efforts of countless others, but it's not just some person. Shame, it came to this.

We had hard forks of very popular systems before, e.g. xfree86 turned into x.org, LibreOffice vs OpenOffice.org, Hudson to Jenkins and others and basically everyone switched (nearly) overnight.

Fork will likely have a much better direction structure to avoid precisely this problem, at least it seems to be the pattern.