[Lazare]

That explains a ton, I imagine. It might even explain everything.

...makes Ben's decision to pull out of the project even more interesting though. Where does that leave StrongLoop?

[xs_kid]

Before of this incident each company (Joyent & StrongLoop) had two core members in the project, now StrongLoop have only one: Bert Belder

[mcv]

Man, corporate political games in an open source project.

I don't feel like I can possibly have an informed opinion on this, but I certainly feel played for having voiced a less informed opinion on the original discussion.

[janjongboom]

I would not be surprised to see StrongLoop fork node.

[drderidder]

That's right, and with their expertise in libuv they could easily target a version to large multicore (32, 64) servers. IBM has also created a PowerPC fork, incidentally.

[petercooper]

Not exactly a fork but they do have their own distribution: http://strongloop.com/strongloop-suite/strongnode/