Hi fuzzy,
I know eagle eye opinions and this are opinions of any mainstream business managers which sees everything as a war. That is why I was so happy to find bytemaster who had different approach to life and business. I am not knowledgable enough to understand every detail that Rune is talking about, but I keep hearing word like attack which goes against my life philosophy of cooperation and help. I thought that we are in this community trying to build new way of doing business and not follow old way of hostile acquisitions. Have you ever wondered why bytemaster is not commenting. My guess is that he knows in time we will get better and overtake our competitors fair and square without resorting to use of force. If our technology is better than bitcoin than let's people choose it without being forced to do it.
Aloha fuzzy
I am fast starting to realize that you can't change the nature of business with a technology. That takes a fundamental change in human nature--and that ain't happening anytime soon.
Now with that said, the word attack is probably a bit strong. It would be better to call it applying leverage to force an upgrade to their currently inadequate and unfair system---a bitcoin revolution. But without a huge marketing push to call it that on many media channels, you essentially will see it framed as an attack by most of the bitcoin community. With that, I agree.
I hate to be a cynic, but let's face it...we have worked completely out in the open for the past year and largely have nothing to show for it but a group of people over at Ethereum who plan on essentially forking DPOS and acting like it was their creation...(not like they are going to put a "powered by BitShares" symbol by their logo, right?). NXT arguably used a great deal of Dan's theories to beat us to the punch with their tech (though they missed the scalability issues because Dan didn't talk about that stuff until after theirs had come out). All around you, you will see us being attacked.
I am not sure what to say...other than we have to find ways to proactively defend ourselves and this awesome protocol.