"No money has ever been extorted from CM nor will it ever be," Deveci told Ars. Ahmet claims that Kondik once asked him how much he would be willing to sell the domain for. "I replied as a joke and said $10K. He didn't even reply after that, he went offline, and simply started changing all my logins access and passwords."
Either Deveci is trying to hide the fact that he attempted extortion, or he has no sense of proportion. $10,000 is exactly the wrong amount for a joke. $1 would be silly. $100 would be reasonable. $1 million would be a joke. $10,000 is extortion.
There is a lot more information regarding stuff from the past few months involving other accounts and/or proof of defrauding. I'd basically be puppeting someone from the team, repeating it from IRC here and that feels wrong to me. Suffice it to say, I don't buy for a second that this was meant as a joke, and at the very least I don't blame Steve for immediately taking action.
"No money has ever been extorted from CM nor will it ever be," Deveci told Ars. Ahmet claims that Kondik once asked him how much he would be willing to sell the domain for. "I replied as a joke and said $10K. He didn't even reply after that, he went offline, and simply started changing all my logins access and passwords."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/owner-of-cyanogenmod-...