So more Bitcoin companies should be involved in development? It's funny that Conformal Systems did exactly that, and gets no recognition from Gavin or any of the other core developers for their contributions.
Unlike BitPay which made a big deal of supporting the community via Jeff Garzik's 2000 LOC, Conformal put the
development of their actual business on hold for a year while they wrote a clean slate reimplementation of the reference implementation as an open source donation to the community.
Justus,
I agree with you in spirit, but you should be a bit more up-front about the fact that Conformal's bitcoind implementation is written in the "Go" language.
There's nothing wrong with that, but there also isn't much demand outside of Conformal for a bitcoin client written in Go. If one of their major motivations was to contribute to the bitcoin community they would have chosen a language that more bitcoiners know and therefore can contribute in. In other words, their contribution is primarily to the Go community here, not the bitcoin community. That's okay.
FWIW, I write my "serious" code in Coq, which is a hell of a lot more obscure than Go
glass houses, stones, etc.