Pivotal's strong influence over CFF decisions comes from the fact that votes are assigned according to how many fulltime engineers you devote to Foundation work

Pivotal's strong influence over CFF decisions comes from the fact that votes are assigned according to how many fulltime engineers you devote to Foundation work. Pivotal has more fulltime engineers on CFF projects than anyone else. There are, as you note, pros and cons. It made sense at the time, as I think there were concerns about vendor politics getting in the way of developing the thing. I guess one of these days we'll smash the CFF and CNCF together and stagger out with some kind of bicameral system, just for laughs. Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. Trolling is just my hobby.