Why can't you buy retail, OP?
It strikes me as fairly ironic that someone like yourself, with the ability to type a long, punctuated, well-formed message, and with the ability to obviously understand some code, can't shell out a twenty. I mean no offense, I'm just kinda curious.
That said, I've been through (most of) this drama, and I have to say that I think TBM and the first RTB and 0002 are kind of water under the bridge. The tenacity of the TBM guys totally amazes me, but it seems pretty dumb to re-invent an entire game just to perpetuate some drama. RTB original is old, and fairly obsolete. I loaded up 0002 at a lan party once or twice for laughs but I don't think anyone plays it seriously anymore. I'm decently sure that most people have moved on from all this rivalry onto retail. Could be my perspective is skewed as well though, who knows.