Too many of the Ethereum devs had way too much of their currency tied up in the DAO. It's a classic conflict of interest. Don't forget that Ethereum had a significant premine as well (which is very shady in its own right), so the early devs and adopters have a lot of ETH to throw around.
> Too many of the Ethereum devs had way too much of their currency tied up in the DAO.
Do you have any evidence of that? I know about the address that was found in both the Foundation wallet and as a DAO holder but I haven't seen any other developer shown to be DAO holders. Stephan Taul would obviously be a big DAO holder as one of the people behind it but he's not with the Ethereum Foundation anymore (having left to work on Slock.it and The DAO).
Even if they have a conflict of interest they seem to be going out of their way to let the community decide what to do.
I'd expect that Gavin Wood has substantial DAO holdings. He might not be a foundation member, but the way that ethcore is acting here doesn't make me think it's operating in an unbiased fashion.
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