Quote from: The Spectreproject on November 23, 2016, 08:14:04 PM

We are just doing what other coins are doing, we find a code base that suits are needs and work from that. No scam here.

Kind of like Litecoin copied Bitcoin and Shadowcash copied Blackcoin etc. This is the nature of open source, read up a bit and educate yourself. Read a bit more

...or is Monero a copy of something? I wonder

The point is not that you are "forking" an open source project, but that you
1. replace the copyright notices (why even?)
2. advertise functions you did not develop as if you built them
3. there is zero development work compared to the original
4. not even a whitepaper of what you want to do
5. you not even let someone trusted do the escrow of your ICO