The "high dudgeon" may come from the fact that some of us don't like posters claiming, in effect, that Richo and the other Wild Oats people are professionally incompetent and may be thieves. The WOXI team are people like you and I. For someone to allege them of possible theft of intellectual property, when they have no evidence whatsoever to base any such allegation, is not the sort of thing that should be common on any forum. If any poster is going to allege other people of possible theft then they can hardly complain when much milder allegations are thrown back at them. The allegations that the WOXI team are "incredibly nuts" and can't install a DSS system properly aren't much better.
I have to admit, I don't understand the concept that saying that someone may be a thief is OK as long as it's done on the internet. It's not the thinking where WOXI and the team live. To you these guys may just be images on the internet, but in reality they are people who should not be grossly insulted.
There's also the issue that we're not going to learn much if the default reaction of such news is for people who have never sailed a boat remotely like WOXI on a race remotely like the Hobart to accuse the designers of being "incredibly nuts". Surely the best reaction is to watch and wait.
