it doesnt matter what fork gavin wants to manage.. all that counts is what fork mining pools work on..
if all the pools stick with the current github version. then the hearn fork will just be a its own little crappy fork that will end up being an altcoin. the issue will then be that no one will want to trade real bitcoins for altbitcoins(hearns fork) as they wont be worth as much.
the only thing that i am concerned with is if gavin brutalizes the github by revoking membership and preventing coders from continuing on with the current bitcoin code, forcing people to use hearns fork
I dont think he will be forcing people.this could be a move from him so that people realize that he is importat for bitcoin community and then people will accept his fork proposal. Hearn fork is just another stupid altcoin fork, it serve bitcoin not better than any altcoin, much more like a copy of altcoin
i think its worth people looking at what other hidden lines of code hearn wants to impliment. as i dont think the hearn vs github is just about 20mb..