I don't know any C... yet
I am torn between 2 minds on this subject. While we can assume there are only a few people who have been less that polite on this subject, the whole idea just seems a bit unfair towards you. Me personally, wouldn't want to share anything that I have worked so hard to make. Don't like the idea of you giving away trade secrets so to speak.
However, have to view this picture as the whole, and realise that this is probably a very good way to help out the budding programmers out there. While its good that this will not allow a copy and paste job, it should be the spark that ignites the young minds
Another thing - although this could be seen as a separate topic from this one - is to increase the abilities of plugins in the current version of Plus. This is separate because it doesn't really have the teaching power that releasing the source code would have.
I don't know the answer to your question, because I don't know myself if I want to see the source code released. I am equally torn between the 2 ideas
P.S. You calm down a lot faster than I would