I don't care about DRK one way or the other, but this thread is quickly leaving me with the impression gmaxwell is just another coin developer who feels his particular coin is the One True Coin, and so he slams all others.
Looking at your previous post, I think you are lying by saying "you dont care about DRK one way or the other".
You are a DRK holder, arent you?
I have what, 2 previous post in a DRK thread, both of which indicate I think the price is going to go down and continue to do so.
How you get from that to me being a DRK holder must require some interesting gymnastics.
I don't think DRK is a scam, but I do think it's been overhyped. I also think the dev is likely in over his head, knows it, and that's why he won't open the source yet.
In the end, I don't much care if DRK lives or dies. If it fails, some later iteration won't.
I like to see diversity in altcoins. I think it's a good thing to have a lot of chaos on the fringes. Some of that will bubble up to be good ideas. It doesn't matter if 99% of them are copycoins or poorly implemented. New ideas are good for the ecosystem. Even hype of previous ideas is a good thing, it promotes the concepts to wider audiences.
Gmaxwell has made it very plain he does not like altcoins. He's stated it directly. I disagree with him on this point, and in fact I think it's quite dangerous to centralize on one coin with one set of developers.