Yeah, if you've got seven hours:
http://www.twitch.tv/themattabase/b/346836818
I've only skipped through it, but it was enough to get an overall impression. Basically some member of the Forge community has decided to assume an alias and copy BTW wholesale (with their "own" code if you can call it that because they're directly reverse engineering my own source), while LexManos and other prominent members of the Forge community are acting as the public face of it and helping to promote it.
I'm sure Lex is also involved in the creation of hooks to support it given some of the stuff that was said during the video.
This is why I went to the Forge channel and went off on Lex the other night btw. I've never really liked the guy, and he doesn't like me, but this is obviously crossing a major line between us to have the current head of the Forge actively encouraging this kind of my behavior. The underlying message is a very clear "if you don't join us, we'll rip off your mod wholesale". They began that trend by ripping off ML when Risu refused to let them include it in the FTB mod-pack, and now they're apparently doing the same thing with me.
On the bright side, it looks like they only have somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% of it implemented (the easiest part), and it's buggy as shit, so it's unlikely to be a serious concern in the immediate future. By the time it's anywhere close to complete, I will likely be largely moved over to RTH anyways.
On principle though, it's pure scummery, and their rationale is entirely full of holes. They're basically saying that "We're not creative enough to come up with our own mod of this quality, and we like your stuff so much, that we want you to stop continuing to make it". That's obviously not going to happen anyways, but at best it's an extreme case of "cut off your nose to spite your face".
And BTW: that's why I've been relatively quiet the past couple of days. I'm pretty pissed off at the moment, although I'm beginning to return to normal today.
