Perhaps the team doesn't want to share the code as yet?
Then why have a github at all? To make-believe pre-sale investors there is open-source development going on and after launch letting it idle because the money has been collected?
Nothing wrong with not going the open-source route, but it's more than a little odious to pretend to do so and then retract that.
Nothing about it is odious and no one retracted anything. I'm not sure why you are so concerned with it. MANO is taking all the right steps, staying true to all commitments to the community and about to launch the most advanced MN Hosting Platform anyone has ever seen. I am not sure why you are focused on all the wrong details, but we answered your question about github and that MANO is closed source, and now you want to suspect something odious? Come on man, stop grasping for anything you can and open your eyes to the reality that MANO is here to stay, and here to change the MN scene!