A unique useful feature is what a coin needs now days to standout in the crowd of clone coins. I don't want Darkcoin to be seen as a clone by loosing this unique selling point.
Completely agree.
If all of the coins implement it, at least their source will say "DarkSend" 1 million times. That's at least better than KGW, which doesn't share the name
I'm all for it being open sourced, just not right away, in 3 months or something around that amount of time, so darkcoin has plenty of space to grow.
I'm sure this will end up being an idiotic question, but since I'm a beginner, I don't mind a few laughs at my expense for the sake of learning. If once the Darksend technology is made open source, does that prevent Darkcoin from receiving tx fees from those coins that copy and utilize the technology? Seems like a "users fee" would be a good way to generate extra incentive rewards for miners which will be needed once difficulty escalates past profitability. Those same fees could also be used for further development of Darkcoin.