There is a difference between closed source and not released to public .. If he hadn't said anything about it noone would care or talk about this.
We have been talking about the GPU miner from the start.
Concerns were voiced that a malicious coder would create a private GPU miner without releasing it.It does seem that in order to aid fairness, we should actually be focusing on producing a GPU miner now and as soon as possible. This would prevent a malicious coder creating one in secret and obtaining an unfair advantage.
We need a hardfork. (ASAP)
What a gem of a quote in your quote.
I've never regarded mining as a malicious activity. It's a service to the network, it generates coins that will then be available on the open market. Mining is also a competitive activity, and of course I am trying to be more efficient than others. I think you're having a problem with unequal distribution of mining profits, a feeling known as
envy.A hardfork is dangerous, kind of like switching drivers while on a curvy coastal highway. Mountcoin fell off a cliff trying to come up with a V2.0 wallet version that also attempted to change some coin parameters (I think they intended to lower orphan rates by reducing the average block time), but did so without the required technical expertise.