Some of us bought shares from other shareholders, but you are right buying something that others got for free isn't truly a scam
And how the devs win money? If the people get the shares for free then it´s not scam :S Real scams are Syscoin, CraigsCoin, etc Ico coins.
WTF are you talking about? He issued 1 million tokens on Nxt AE. He sent a few free ones to some people using this thread. He has been dumping the rest with his dozens of various sock puppet Nxt accounts. In the end he dumped all 1 million tokens.
It was pure, 100% scam from the start. He used "oh it's free" as an excuse to claim it can't be a scam, but he controlled vast majority of 1 million tokens on the Nxt AE, and he had been selling those worthless tokens by using this very "thread" and lying there was a "project", "sourcecode", " new developer," "big announcement", and such when there was nothing.