In my view Maelstrom instantly disqualifies itself because it's kept closed source. I really don't understand how BitTorrent (the company) can take itself serio

In my view Maelstrom instantly disqualifies itself because it's kept closed source. I really don't understand how BitTorrent (the company) can take itself seriously preaching about "truely neutral" networks. I've worked with IPFS, and it's really amazing. The development on it is very active, and the main developers are easily accessible for questions on Freenode#ipfs. I've been trying to build a tiny consensus protocol on top of it, but its native support for signing is still a little rough around the edges (and of course I've been distracted by a thousand other side-projects).