How could I know what they really did? I feel I need to copy-paste something I wrote nearly 4 years ago under "[POLL] Multi-sig or scalability--which is more pressing?".
Gentle reminder to the other bitcoin developers: it is generally best not to feed trolls. Use the ignore button.
If you sit in on a poker game and dont see a sucker, get up. Youre the sucker.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/09/poker-patsy/Anyway, here's the example of how open source poker is being played.
A whale of a player spends big bucks developing a secret database engine. After 5 years this player takes one of the earliest branches and open sources it. Lets call that branch LevelDB. Suckers jump on it, spend money and energy to develop some basic tools like statistics gathering and query optimization. Then the whale brings the
cold deck to the table, which gives him an instant 5 years of leadtime. It looks like that:
Then, a month later, the main devs decided to switch to compressed public keys which requires a whole new wallet format for Armory. I was crushed.
I'm no Google insider or anything like that. But I used to knew the people who played with the current Googlers; and I'm broadly familiar with the level of skill involved.
Before you spend to much time at the keyboard and mouse please do see the old David Mamet's movie "House of games". Remember the line:
it was only business
nothing personal.