[dasil003]

I realize this is biased, but for me Joyent's involvement in anything is reason to be suspicious. Back in 2004 me and several hundred others fronted the money to get Joyent (aka TextDrive) off the ground. The marketing was fabulous, they had A-list blogger Dean Allen as founder and spokesperson, and Jason Hoffman as CTO spouting off an unending stream of pie-in-the-sky ideas about how awesome the tech was going to be.

Over several years it became clear that Jason was only interested in playing with cool technologies and a lot of public self aggrandizement in the process. However, never did they seem to deliver any stable game changing technology to the level they had hyped. It seems like they eventually they sort of limped out with an alternative platform that could be competitive if you squinted hard enough, and then sold it by means of aforementioned marketing skills. But for those of us who got the company off the ground, we basically all got screwed. And even though Jason has left Joyent, to me their DNA is suspect, and I would never trust them as stewards of an open source project.

[Lazare]

Oh man, I'd forgotten all about the fiasco. Wikipedia has a nice roundup of the lifetime hosting shitstorm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive

[mercer]

Damn. I was already a bit skeptical of Joyent, but this doesn't inspire more confidence.