I doubt gmaxwell feels one way or the other -- he just thought the ring signature technique for obfuscating inputs was neat.
Anyway, I'm not here to turf the BCN thread and I'm thankful for their codebase, I just wish they would coordinate with us a bit better so we can both work on improving our respective projects.
This argument seems personal and not at all related to BCN, please take this to its own thread or continue on a freenode.
Oh and why would they want to assist you guys on your respective project when a good portion of your dev team degrade and slander the Bytecoin name and history.