Quote from: pseudonymdude on September 26, 2015, 12:18:17 AM

Quote from: smooth on September 25, 2015, 11:28:57 PM

Quote from: pseudonymdude on September 25, 2015, 11:09:25 PM

gjhiggins and by extension icebreaker were implying (outright saying) that john stole the code from Bitcoin, which I showed was from 2005 or earlier.

No, what you showed was that a different version of the code, from which Bitcoin was aparently adapted with the required attribution was from 2005 or earlier. The version in Vanillacoin is clearly very structurally similar to the Bitcoin version (as gjhiggins and others have observed) and was copied from it (with variable renames and other obfuscation) without attribution, along with other portions of Bitcoins code which do not appear to come from OpenSSL.

Furthermore this all shows that Vanillacoin was not entirely written from scratch (unless you claim that Vanillacoin was written before 2005 -- good luck with that) and john fraudulently misrepresented it when he solicited investors on that basis (and continues to do so now).

also John was part of the openssl project, if he helped write it originally, than using it no matter where it was adapted to is still legally within his rights..

by the way Vanilla coin is Great, new things keep coming out, and your repeating yourself daily is getting really boring.