OK well I just went and found the thread at X-Biz. For those looking for it I won't post the URL here but the thread title is
Oh CECash is gonna hate me!
You started off the thread with this:
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We've all heard of StatsRemote and seen it promoted by every TGP owner, webmaster resource site, and even a few different affiliates promote it. It's "soo amazing" because it fakes a few HTTP requests, parses up the results, and puts it in a pretty lil' blue window.
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Were you not expecting a response? The goal behind the Open Source movement is not to put other companies out of business but rather to offer free
alternatives for those who want them. Your whole thread there reads more like an attack than a friendly notice of an alternative, so it's no wonder that the Stats Remote people are going to have a response to it.
You should read up on Open Source a bit more, especially since you also go on to say:
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If I were to release the sourcecode for StatsFree, I would release it only to those people who agreed to the terms of the license. You agree to terms of software licenses everytime you install something and have to check 'I Agree'. Instead of using some long drawn out license, I use one that was built and put together by the opensource/linux community called GPL, or the General Public License. All it does is say that anyone can modify the source code, but they can't take credit for the code, [i]nor can they can ever try to profit off the code or the modifications they make.[i]
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That's not how a GPL works. See here for more details:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Open Source is indeed an awesome thing, but don't taint the spirit by attacking the very people that you state clearly inspired you to write your own "clone" (your words) of their "cool" (again your own words) software.