As a casual Monero user, who's the Bitcoin maxi you're speaking of? Fluffypony? Seth? I remember reading about someone on the Monero core team who started working for a large Bitcoin company but don't remember who it was or what the issue was.
Monero’s cross contribution has been good, wasnt talking about them. Not sure off the top of my head anymore.
I was curious why XMR isn't available.