We don't have any reason to think TX doesn't have the skills either. Anyone who is sure just has cognitive bias.
It's not up to us to prove that they don't have the skills. It's up to them to prove that they do. That announcement on their forum does not prove in any way that they do, since we don't know what affiliation (if any) that person has with their development team.
Indeed. If they had no progress or abandoned the project, I would have expected them to keep staying silent (as they have done for a LONG time now) and quietly fading away from the scene.
I don't think that they wish to abandon SX OS. I just doubt that they have the skill set required to defeat the TSEC issue, so I'm not sure they have a choice (unless they choose to release a version which displays the Atmosphere splash screen). Also, as far as I know, no games require 7.0.x yet, so Team-Xecuter still has a window where they can make money off of their "product." This could change as time goes on though, as games begin to require 7.0.x in order to function correctly.
Actually, if TX have to burn an exploit to release 7.0.x support for TSEC, it would honestly be SciresM's fault for obfuscating the already known exploit out of spite. Open Sores never works y'all; when you don't get paid, you crave that ego boost.
How on earth would that be SciresM's fault if that were to occur? SciresM found the exploit on his own (a shocking concept to Team-Xecuter, I'm sure), and can do whatever he wishes with it. He owes nothing to "the scene." If Team-Xecuter were to find their own TSEC exploit, they are free to do whatever they wish with it as well. I don't see any reason why Team-Xecuter would have to make any exploit they found public to begin with, though, so I don't see that as an issue.
Then give TX the keys, obviously, or you're responsible for burning a massive exploit.
They would be in no way "responsible for burning a massive exploit" in that scenario.
This cycle is just getting old - TX release a great product, people who are too poor to afford it complain and bitch and declare it dead, then they update it and make it even better and y'all fade into then background for a few precious weeks. Then it continues. Don't y'all have jobs?
Team-Xecuter's "product" is sold primarily to people that wish to pirate games (don't give me that "backup" stuff, either), so they don't have to spend money on games. Based on that, It's amazing to me that Team-Xecuter supporters, of all people, are the ones that keep suggesting that anyone who doesn't support their "product" are simply "too poor to afford it."
I can't speak for everyone here, but I actually *gasp* buy my games with my own money. While I disagree with their pro-piracy stance, one of the main reasons that I don't care for Team-Xecuter is because they steal code from open source projects. Oh, and that time they included brick code, as well...