This comment section is so interesting. It's a great example of the value of PR; that it's not what you do that's important, but how you frame it.
How VLC should have framed this post:
1. Our plug-in got banned from the Unity Store for what we believe are bad reasons. Other high-profile plug-ins with LGPL code are still there.
2. To ensure that our users can still get our plug-in, we set up our own store which sells the plug-in.
3. Also the store has all these other services you can buy.
But they omitted the second part. And the simple act of not explicitly connecting the store to the plug-in ban through enough PR speak seems to have been enough to make people here characterize this blog post as simply an ad for their store.
How VLC should have framed this post:
1. Our plug-in got banned from the Unity Store for what we believe are bad reasons. Other high-profile plug-ins with LGPL code are still there.
2. To ensure that our users can still get our plug-in, we set up our own store which sells the plug-in.
3. Also the store has all these other services you can buy.
But they omitted the second part. And the simple act of not explicitly connecting the store to the plug-in ban through enough PR speak seems to have been enough to make people here characterize this blog post as simply an ad for their store.