The Foundation has received plenty of donations which is why it can now afford to pay three full time devs, at least for a while.
Peter - for what it's worth I think you're doing the malleability fixes wrong. I haven't bothered to argue about it or strongly object because unlike you I think something is better than nothing in this regard, but if you like I'll deluge your pull requests in endless criticism too. Wouldn't that be fun!
Sometimes I whish I would also get a small crumb of donations...
Anyway, I think it's bad to be not focused on improving things, but just on destroying anothers thoughts and work... EVEN if I have objections.
Some of the projects idleness comes from that fact IMHO. I also think more users should help testing pulls on Github and give feedback. Often there sneak in bugs into releases that shouldn't be in there because of the RC phases for example.
Dia