Umm, we didn't?
> created omega but it never did replace borg
It did have material impact on Borg.
Sometimes the strategy is simply "we know how to do this, and we'd prefer not to see you go through all the same pain to figure it out".
'tis fascinating to dig in to open source serverless on Kubernetes options only to realize that there's probably 100+ engineers working on istio+knative, ~10x more than any prior alternative.
When is KnativeCon coming?
Since folks get so worked up about allocations unofficially shaping decisions, I suggest[^] that Knative be homed with the Cloud Foundry Foundation, where the rules are written to give votes based on how many fulltime contributors you assign. That way it's all out in the open.
Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, which is in both the CFF and CNCF. I was aware of Knative relatively early.
[^] in a ha-ha-only-serious way