To me it speaks to the fact that Rebble is not really an organization that is in a position to actually negotiate a long term deal with another company and go through all the trials and tribulations that involves.

That is not a criticism of them nor is it surprising, their responsibility up to now has been to maintain a core set of open source software. A loosely structured control structure is entirely appropriate for that task. But it really does not work when instead of bringing one person representing the company to a negotiation, you have half a dozen people who all have their own thoughts and levels of interest and commitment, some of whom will resort to community action if they don't like something about the process.