Hard work? I doubt that the original poster put in 1/1000th the amount of work that the Bytecoin developers put in. Software development is a lot of work. I probably should have been nicer to the original poster in my comment, but was somewhat peeved by his attitude. I am not a Bytecoin developer, but still the word ungrateful screams to me. Ungrateful for the work they have done in the past and ungrateful for the work they continue to do. As to the accusations, sorry but I don't believe everything I read on the Internet.
I'm not saying any more.
You must be new around here.
You'll find that we have a very low tolerance for scams, even the ones that have a lot of work put into them. In fact, the best scams normally have tremendous effort put in making them appear legit, and when those with even a modicum of technical skill uncover the truth they show no mercy. That in and of itself does not denigrate or reduce the effort the scammers have put in to their elaborate scam, and I noticed the OP indicated the technical merits of the CryptoNote project.
I'd also like to point out that the Monero core team do not go around "attacking other coins", although we are all known in the cryptocurrency community and will definitely engage in vigorous debate and / or correct false or twisted information. We are all our own persons and entitled to be as opinionated or neutral as we wish, and unless someone has a factual disagreement with our opinion, it is merely us participating in an open and opinionated debate.