If this was true, then you wouldn't be so panicy literally days before btcd is getting ready to surpass Bitcoin Core in terms of functionality, despite persistent and coordinated efforts over the last year to shut them out.
I don't see any connection between what we were talking about and this, perhaps I missed something. I don't think btcd guys have been "shut out". If they really do have more functionality then that's great, though the last I heard about btcd is that it didn't support Bloom filtering (but advertised in their ver message that they did).
Anyway, they presumably need a long term funding model as well. I don't know how Conformal subsidise btcd development, but relying on a single generous company is not a solution either.
The evidence suggests that the "core development team" is increasingly facing votes of no-confidence in multiple fronts exactly because of your attitude. The reason nobody donates money to Bitcoin Foundation is because nobody trust them or you.
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!
