1. The project leaders agreed to this; it's not just the Google people. If it were just Google, they would have had to fork the project and call it getcd or wha

1. The project leaders agreed to this; it's not just the Google people. If it were just Google, they would have had to fork the project and call it getcd or whatever, then ruin it at the expense of their own reputation. 2. Speaking of forking, it's still quite possible for a few interested developers to fork an clean older version, call it freetcd, and rebuild the reputation. It worked for LibreOffice after all - and that's when OpenOffice wasn't terrible, just somewhat mismanaged. All that said - I don't quite see why you need a specialty database for a simple key-value store for /etc settings. Aren't there plain-vanilla kv-stores which would do?