There are lots of bitcoin companies! Bitcoin companies arent in competition with bitcoin.
Cryptonomex is a bitshares company. Like Moonstone, and others to come.
Bitcoin companies don't attempt to change Bitcoin's terms of licensing to prevent it from being forked or extended in new directions.
Having bitshares companies improves the value of the bitshares ecosystem.
The problem is not the company. The problem is to try to force BitShares to use that company's non free software product and accept the major restrictions that come with it.
Stop bitching at the devs you guys!
There is a reason this thread is called "wake up call".
There are no technical reasons for forbidding Bitshares from evolving beyond a single ledger model.
The only reason is to prevent BitShares from growing too much and competing with Cryptonomex's clients.
This definitely isn't in the interest of BitShares.
So far I have seen half a dozen posts implying Ithat this is fud, but none has actually addressed any of the points I raised.
edit: replaced "closed source" by "non free software"