Hi Tom,
thanks for the clarification. Now I'm speechless, more than disappointed, upset and some other things which I won't post here.
I've thought about it for the last few days since you confirmed that software/hardware open source is not going to happen. In my opinion mc-Things does not act trustfully, you've promised too much and kept this information hidden from your supporting users until now. As mentioned within the direct messages on kickstarter it was and is a key argument for me to support this project and even more, to invest more money. I'm sure it was much more than the average.
I do understand your decision regarding the investment, but it's your responsibility to arrange the requirements of your company and the promises made to your customers at the funding campaign. How you did that isn't truly honest.
Right now I cannot use the mc-things platform for my needs, just because you closed all doors and I cannot add the needed functionality by myself. What offends me much more is the fact that I can't even try to completely reprogram the firmware by myself, because you don't provide any schematics of the hardware in addition to the fact that I can't even get the mc-Module firmware back on those reprogrammed modules. Brilliant.
Really sad.
Helge