(I believe it is no longer the case that the source is not available, but I'm not positive.)
Why do you even comment without doing your research? You are no better than the 0 activity trolls in most threads.
The project is
open source, google: vanillacoin + github
Was it hard?
I note for the emphasis with regard to bolded quoted comment above, the new ANN thread is self-moderated, which means you can't trust it to contain an open unbiased debate about the merits of the coin.
There are a lot of red flags here. Be careful.
The popular discussion thread is
unmoderated, take a look here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=977245.2780Also john doesn't moderate the official forums at all (a few community members are also mods there, like myself - it's
unmoderated), which you can find here:
https://talk.vanillacoin.net/The ANN was
locked, because he made an official forum like many other projects.
As for gmaxwell, he started fuding, because John had an argument with them on the Bitcoin github, which you would have seen if you read the thread you just quoted. Gmaxwell isn't the hero of the altcoin section, he doesn't just go an investigate projects, he had an agenda because he was butthurt.In theory you couldn't answer this post, because you literally made no research and now you should feel like a true ass jumping on the hate train, but this isn't how the world works so you will probably come up with a shitty excuse to fud.