I'll be releasing most of this as open source once the project is very complete. Some parts are taken from existing projects, some are new - but I would like to release it all in the future (not just the open parts) if the community agrees.
He is talking about the source code, not the white paper. Irregardless if you're going to straight copy whole paragraphs of text and project ideas, cite where you took it from. You'd get expelled from university for doing this.
Did you get expelled from the university?
Because 'irregardless' is not a word.
Look you can cry all you want, alot of people cried when ISIS, Asiacoin, Firecoin, Dreamcoin, Honorcoin and Silkcoin got called out. Hell I myself was played by a few of these. You can be mad, but the fact is we know just like all these other ones the dev is going to disappear off the face of the earth and go open shop on another coin in a few days while everyone is stuck in the thread throwing their hands up asking, "What happened?!" and then trying to "reclaim" the coin for the community.
Hell he was online through all this drama and is now offline. What does that tell you?
The ones who are really upset the most are those who don't care it is a scam and wanted to see the pump and dump game go a few days longer. People who want "Infinite" chaos maybe :p
I'm not crying nor am I mad because I wanted the P&D to continue.
I am yelling at you for making wild accusations and conclusions when you have no real proof. That is all.
Perhaps he did cite the source of his project ideas. Did you check the paper that he did source? It mentions all of the ideas that are in both the Shieldcoin and RetroShare papers. Perhaps both Shieldcoin and RetroShare used that paper as their source?
I don't have any proof that this is not a scam either. I just want you to get your shit together and stop making wild accusations.
What you should have done when you found that the Shieldcoin paper resembles the RetroShare paper, is post here with a link to the RetroShare paper and kindly ask the dev if that was one of his sources?
You can say he was online and saw all of this drama, but you don't really know that. We all know that it can show a user as online if the browser window is left open and the user is still logged in.