[erydo]

What "nasty tactic" are you referring to? I see:

  Actually I was going to suggest that we work together and merge the best features of both into a common source-base that could be used by both groups going forward: eventually unifying the developer pool and mind share.  This might be difficult, but I think the end result would be useful.

Reaching out to another project with similar goals to clarify and understand the differences, and offer collaboration doesn't seem nasty. Am I missing something?