I agree. To be more precise there was no premine or fastmine at all.
The per-block developer payment is a bit like a premine though, especially how it is structured (negative votes just defer payment, they don't actually reduce the total amount given to the developer, which is fixed at 1% of the total).
Still that is not at all massive by the standards of other coins with a developer coin grab.
You are correct. No fastmine or premine. Developer payment was disclosed since the beginning. If Boolberry was just a simple clone, nobody would want to mine it and reward the developer. Luckily many people do recognize the innovation at boolberry and find the developer payment very reasonable
I should note that community development donations for many coins including AEON which you are working on far exceed 1%.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11986798
AEON info from your quote:
"Donation fund:
balance: 414176.048419687951, unlocked balance: 414165.931766313195
Previously spent: 19000 (bounties)"
414,176/18,4000,000 = 2.25 %
Your current donations as a percentage of all coins that will ever be mined (excluding your current tail emission proposal) far exceeds that of Boolberry
Most developers will not work for free so funding is important. As long as everything is transparent (as it is with both Boolberry and Aeon) I see no problems