Amen. I don't understand all the finger pointing at all the other cryptonote coins. "They are scams and should be avoided like the plague," we are told, but how are they scams? We are left to do guesswork based on circumstantial evidence that really doesn't mean jack shit even if it were all true anyways. How does their existence represent some spiteful vengeance against Monero by the Bytecoin team? How can the various coins and this Cryptonote coingen actually impact the price of Monero to any substantial degree? If anything an attempt to dilute the cryptonote community with vast number of cryptonote forks will only exacerbate the indifference to any coin not named Monero.
CryptoNote coins are still very rough around the edges. The technology still needs to be developed. We have a healthy number of coins that are all developing cryptonote down their own unique paths, just as if 5-10 bitcoin alternatives existed a month after Satoshi released bitcoin. Why not let those groups try different things and see which one applies the best ideas of the bunch? Natural selection by a free market.
neuroMoan, I added another section called "All Tied Up in a Bow" that goes further to prove the link between all the scamcoins. Go read it.
I'm not against new CN-based coins hitting the market, but given the evidence we've seen of the CryptoNote/Bytecoin fuckery it's best to treat them all with ridiculous amounts of caution unless a very well known member of the community is involved.