[jgrahamc]

JGC tweeted me about how 'Oh, we get so much benefit from LuaJIT being FOSS"

And we do. We paid Mike Pall to work on open source LuaJIT, we've contributed to NGINX, hired people to exclusively work on open source projects. Here's the harsh economic reality: it is simply better business for us to spend a relatively small amount of money on open source support to get what we need from fantastic projects like LuaJIT than to try to develop this stuff ourselves.

My worst fear is CF taking this project into the shadows, developing it closed-source (which they absolutely have a right to do) and not sharing their insights with the community.

How do we "have the right to do" that? Whatever makes you think us trying to closed source this would have any benefit to us? How is the Github account (of which Mike Pall is an owner) us walling it off?

More than that, I don't think there has been enough narrative between Mike and the 'new LuaJIT crew' (CF) to determine how the project should be structured.

I predict that if I hadn't sent an email to the list soliciting ideas and input and had announced a new structure you would have complained that everything had been done in the shadows.