Had no idea he wanted to make it a company.

Ah, right, Lol, I didn't think of that at all. But could this be a wider problem than this? Many open source projects that could've been "sponsored" by someone like you, but ended up being commercialized by vested interests?

That makes sense - it looked very much like a pure open source project.

I wonder if they came to him or if someone else facilitated it as opposed to it being his initiative.