would you say that Bitshares is still a fully open source project?
Newmine certainly won't say that, or anything positive about Bitshares. He will come up with every possible thing he can think of to try to get you to sell BTS.
what say you, @Ander?
I dont think its any more or less centralized than its always been. Bitshares has never been in a state where it could survive losing its dev team. It has always been dependent on Dan and the various people he has hired and recruited to work on the project, because its still just a beta product, and we need something more viable to be able to actually take off among more than the type of tech enthusiasts like us that we have here, who are willing to wade through client issues in order to trade assets.
In the future, a larger, better bitshares will hopefully be more decentralized, with many independent entities using it in various ways, rather than a community sitting around waiting on a dev team to finish the product so they can get something useable that they can actually promote.