[thehardsphere]

I must have missed most of the Joyent drama then, because your description of it sounds bigger than I remember. Again, I don't follow Node closely enough to be sure.

Go is a good counter example, and it also doesn't have the corporate politics despite being backed mostly by a single corporation. I was thinking that my guess was probably missing something; the behind the scenes struggle for control between multiple companies might be it.

Is there a way to quantify this "corporate politics" thing in Node and compare it to other communities with drama?