There aren't that many open source developers (and only a few are posting in this forum). If you look at your LimeWire about window you will find the following names:
Richie Bielak, Jerry Charumilind, Marvin Chase,
David Graff, Andy Hedges, Michael Hirsch, Gordon Mohr, Chance Moore, Gregorio Roper, William Rucklidge, Philippe Verdy, Stephan Weber and Fabian Merki (missing in that listing). As far as I know only one of them is posting here every now and then. It's probably more likely to meet a real limewire developer here, than meeting an open-sourcer.

However the limewire developers are really busy people, and they are working hard on big improvements for the next version. They don't have much time for answering questions of their users and some of the users in this forum will know the answers to your questions, so why would you want to wait for some comment from developers?