There aren't any developers that are carrying on the project as far as I know. Only modifying it to remove the devfee. I won't share those links because I feel that it would be inappropriate to do so. A simple Google search should be sufficient. In any case, I'm satisfied with what I'm using. Claymore or Phoenix. It doesn't matter. My current hashpower for my machines are only about 600MH/s so if they want to take 6MH/s each day for their efforts then I'm okay with that. That's literally ten cents a day. A measly ~$40 a year. My opinion is that the developers earned it whether they continue to work on it or not.
Look at it this way, if you made a program that earned you 1% of 188.86TH/s (so that'll be 1.8886) but let's say that Claymore is 60% and Phoenix is 40% so let's give Phoenix 0.75TH/s and Claymore the rest which is 1.81306TH/s. Let's convert that into profitability with zero cost or fees. 1,813,060MH/s He's earning no less than $1,182.71 an hour. Or $851,551.38 each month. So if you make over $10M a year by making a program that people are using without any issues what else do you need to do? You can't be forced to work. The dude is probably sitting on his own island fishing! Can you blame him? He saw an opportunity and he jumped on it! I'm actually quite envious. It just makes me respect the developers more. They don't need to play "free tech support" unless they want to. I doubt that we'll ever hear from either of them again and I'm perfectly okay with that. Let someone else step up and start a project. Surely there are more than 2 people in the world that can make a decent ethereum mining program. Then again, by the time they do we'll all probably be on PoS anyway.
Thank you for your time and sharing those numbers!
I was going to do similar and prove that not worth stealing from someone's hard work at the cost losing those developers - forever!
If it was easy, I'm sure we would have tons of mining software. It's not, obviously - not to mention, the next talented and brave soul, after seeing how people go nuts to hack his/her work to save a few pennies / month, they would think twice to give crap about wasting their time.
As for CM, PM, and others, I have a strong feeling they may have modified their codes to mine twice more than existing versions for their own pleasure!!
So, that's the price we all pay for being unfair, cheap and illogical!