Jerome Peace wrote:
> This is a life destroying decision for the squeak
> community.
> 
> Look at how fast the OPLC team develops improvements
> and look at the level of feedback they get.
> 
> Now compare that with the glacial pace of the squeak
> image. 

(Just because I only noticed it and it's so fitting in this discussion)
Even if you do consider The Image to be the sine qua non of Squeak, you 
might want to have a look at:

http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/recent-squeak-packages-releases-2/

which may give you a different view of the "glacial" pace at which the 
community as a whole moves. There is a whole lot of stuff going on if 
you are willing to look beyond the image in front of you.

Cheers,
   - Andreas