My point of view:

Pharo people weren't happy with the way Squeak was developed, so they 
started their own project and now its development goes well: good for 
them. It seems like a lot of people are actually interested and working 
in Pharo; again: good for them.

Now I do like Squeak better, so I stayed here (beside, it would be a 
hell of a work to port my code to Pharo, with all the "cleaning up" that 
happened there). Why should I even consider letting Squeak die, or 
merging it into Pharo ? Of course cross-pollination between the two 
project is something worth reaching for, but I can't see how Squeak 
doing harakiri is an adequate response to this challenge.

Squeak development slowed down quite a bit. So what ? That's something 
we can discuss here in squeak-dev. No urge to surrender to Pharo IMHO.


Stef