> the last sentence in that posting [...] gives them an out to extend
> when SMP will be finished, by saying that they have been working on
> anything else that is "more desireable".

I understand "something better" in this context as meaning "something better for leveraging the yet unused core(s) than SMP" (like for instance bound multiprocessing (BMP), which I'd say isn't really better than SMP but might be easier to implement). But maybe you're right and he literally means "anything else", which might even be a new icon set ;-)