How many developers does the project have? What is your metric for "biggest?" Just total number of contributions?
> You're complaining that the developers of QEMU themselves
Yep. Do any of them work for any commercial companies? Or are we ignoring that to make an argument of appeals? If they all left would QEMU have zero developers?
> because they think it'll work well for them?
Looking at the set of challenges presented at the bottom of the email and their wiki I'm not sure this idea is well founded. There are more wacky compromises listed than there are good ideas.
If you're just going to push hacks upstream and maintain vendor forks downstream then why wouldn't you just start a new project and bring in whatever bits of C code you need until you can replace them.
I've yet to these efforts actually reduce baggage or show any hope of showing returns on investment inside of a decade of insane effort, which always seems to hamper any further feature or bugfix development, out of fear of interrupting other agonizing "works in progress."
Some of this think this is clearly goofy and can't help but comment on it.