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Re:Ethereum hard fork successful with mining majority by DennisP on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:26PM (#12131757)
The Foundation took no official position. Some of the lead developers supported the fork, some opposed it. The decision was made by the miners, by the exchanges (which decided to follow the miners), and indirectly by a public vote of ether holders. Vitalik expressed only a mild preference for the fork, and was careful to say that the opposition had good points and there would be no censorship of anyone. The fork code was implemented in all the major clients, some of which are independent of the Foundation.

From what I've seen, none of the devs or community leaders had especially large DAO holdings, compared to their likely ETH stashes. Their economic incentive is heavily weighted towards keeping Ethereum healthy and supporting the price of ETH.

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Re:Ethereum hard fork successful with mining majority by throwaway2048 on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @04:03PM (#12131994)
supporting the fork in the official client is very much taking an official position.
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Re:Ethereum hard fork successful with mining majority by DennisP on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @04:52PM (#12132417)
Not implementing the fork would be an official no-fork position, enforced on everyone running the client. Implementing the fork gives users the ability to choose.

The default was set pro-fork, but that was clearly the most popular option before the software was released. The real decision was made by the miners, and I think it'd be hard to argue that the miners weren't aware of the issue, or didn't have the technical chops to set the option however they liked.

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