Time to see if I can get this thing to work. I do have access to CFW and such, but it's always fun to mess around with these things.
As for the whole "I HATE (name)!" debate flying around, I don't see the dilemma with either Yellows8 or Smealum. However, I will say that their anti-piracy rants need to be given a rest. Homebrew in and of itself is illegal, given that it is a modification of a product you specifically agreed to not modify. Then again, EULA's are mostly worthless in the "don't modify your product" aspect. The reason I specifically like the Gateway team and other folk that have provided CFW is because they keep their moral dilemmas out of it.
Even rxTools and the like eventually had to admit defeat and allow unsigned code due to being pushed into irrelevancy by others who allowed backup loading, which leads me to fully believe this is all a popularity contest. After all, if it wasn't a popularity contest, we wouldn't see NTR CFW, rxTools, and so on allowing backup loading when they strongly preached against it previously.