I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this has more to do with grifters and griefers than it does about power. Those are people who have the potential

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this has more to do with grifters and griefers than it does about power. Those are people who have the potential to create a lot of expensive headaches or public relations headaches for the organizations supporting their respective languages since the grifters and griefers are only concerned about their own motivations (profit or otherwise). C++ is an entirely different thing. Even though it is backed by a standards body, it is far less centralized. Most people associate C++ with a language and I doubt that there are very many people who view it as a project backed by a particular organization.