In a message dated 10/31/2009 12:32:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, thomas.dalton@gmail.com writes:

It's possible, but since that would require the WMF to intentionally mislead the community and there is no evidence to support it, I think it is unlikely to be the case.>>

That would be true only if the Foundation had actually made a statement of some sort, and they haven't. So they aren't misleading by silence, they just aren't commenting at all.

Will