Actually, it was my main source of income, and releasing it with a fee would have caused the same thing - someone taking it apart and ripping out the code. Dude, you don't even look at history before spouting your bullshit. Go look into the history of darkcoin-mod, and what this "community" will do to avoid paying even a 2% fee on a 50% increase.
EDIT: Oh, and by the way, you're correct that donations aren't required. But don't you dare bitch when people only sell to large farmers when you never donated a cent.
I disagree... I think there would be less incentive if you presented yourself as a professional looking for compensation for work you've done and giving us a end product to work with (such as a miner). Then doing something like a 5% or even 2% dev fee on top of it. At 2% people would use it regardless because they're doing the right thing. I can't do the right thing at 3 BTC when I'm close to having to sell everything off.
Instead you're telling us to sully off if we aren't willing to pay 3 BTC because we're apparently not worthy. Now no one is going to pay for a dev fee (because it's leaked, the miner doesn't exist, and you made it evident you don't like us if we don't have money for you).
I've seen the darkcoin mod, it also had like a 10% or 15% dev fee if I remember right.
Why wouldn't I bitch about someone wrecking the community for personal profit? It runs along the same lines of ASICs and we all know how much GPU miners love those.
Now putting that aside, we'll have faster hashrates for roughly a week and we'll all be back in the same boat only with 15% higher power usage - net loss. The only thing this is a win against is Nvidia I suppose as they're still operating at half the power usage.
