Well, whoever wanted to split the community the way Gavin and Mike did, DESERVES TO FAIL.
You talk to people if you want changes, you do not introduce parallel BTC.
You're right. Gavin never talked to Greg Maxwell or the other devs
that are contributors to the core repo.
There was no discussions on the dev mailing list.
that three year debate that people talk about...never happened.
gavin just woke up one day and created bip101 right out of the blue, just like that.