[charliesome]

The OSS world isn't free from conflict of interest either - just look at the Merb vs. Rails thing a couple of years ago.

[wycats]

As someone who was involved in that, I'm genuinely interested in what you mean.

[charliesome]

Apparently EngineYard was pressured behind the scenes into merging Merb with Rails because they didn't want to lose their status as an 'official' Rails host.

You're probably in the best position to shed some light on this, since everything I know about it is hearsay.

[danneu]

Can you explain? Wiki just explains that Rails pretty much slurped up Merb's featureset/advantage in Rails 3.