Yet what Evan has done is set precedent saying it is ok to take over a coin by buying out the dev and taking over the repo. This creates a MASSIVE centralization issue for Darkcoin.
That's not 100% correct:
- Darkcoin is open source with MIT/X11 license. Everyone can take over and continue. The nice repository name would be gone, that's all.
- If Evan has the right on the name "Darkcoin", the name would be lost. Tragic....
So imagine the worst case scenario, Evan sells the name "Darkcoin", sells the repository and buys a yacht.
The next thing which would happen:
Yours truly would fork the original Darkcoin repository, rename the whole shebang (I think "Dash" would be a cool name), build wallets for Windows, Linux and OSX, inform the community and call it a day.
Nobody would lose a single coin. All Masternodes would still run.
The _value_ of the coin would most probably go down for a while during that process, though.
Annoying, yes, but not the end of the world.