User blog comment:Nults McKagan/A Critique of POTCO MC/@comment-25164591-20150502033227/@comment-4093783-20150502144127

From what I understand, Bart Gunshot ran his own project briefly at that time, and when he decided not to he handed his progress over to Pearson. So no, I don't think the project is much older than two weeks; Pearson just started out with the donated work of somebody else.