Not at all. Phusion uses a different approach with different design goals... It would have been a lot more work to rewrite mongrel to handle those additional goals.

I don't care about support, but for Zed to be mad that nobody wanted to hire him as a consultant for mongrel is a bit absurd considering that he abruptly quit maintaining the product. What's to say he wouldn't just walk away from a consulting gig if his feathers got ruffled.