I have no issue if he outright earned the coins but whats been said is that he simply gave himself the coins and later when he got caught made it public.
The problem is that you shouldn't listen to "what's been said" and check the facts.
He
didn't gave himself the coin out of thin air.
He got the coin from his mining of memorycoin 1.0 as every other miner did. (and Protoshare to, for more detail read my post :
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2124.msg26182#msg26182)
And this was described in the coin announcement in plain sight !All the FUD around this is done buy a few people who want to grab the officer salary for themselves without contributing to the development of the coin, their last take was to ask FreeTrade to give his coin to them/everybody as a blessing for the coin...
All the FUD has done is drop the price off MMC very low. Let's take that on the positive side and say it will allow redistribution of the coin, and allow some clever investor to come in at a cheap price. But this has to stop as all the info is out right now and not much to discuss about any more.