Agreed. Why not just use mr. Spreads original implementation, ...
I'm confused by that, guys.
IIRC (from reading georgem's posts) mr.spread's implementation never worked,
and does not even have anything to do with service nodes, at all.
Why bring this up now?

And why frame it in this deceptive way?
"The code for Servicenodes was written a long time ago".
No it wasn't.
-sf-
What is your definition for Servicenodes?
When we started out, we decided to change the name of masternodes to servicenodes. IIRC, it was my idea to change the name and to use the label 'Service', because that's what people do when they run apps on their computers - they run services.
Masternodes were being tested. There is a thread showing the testing. You can actually still download the masternode test kits.
https://github.com/spreadcoin-project/spreadcoin/tree/mn-test