Why make a second clone and dilute your resources?
Why not hand over day-to-day control of XCR to the enthusiastic LISK guys?
Having two under-resourced projects isn't better, it's bloody madness!!!
kennyp, suppose you are a rapper or comedian. You rehearse your act for months, maybe a year, and even perform it in front of other rappers/comedians for feedback. Then you get a gig on a TV show. However, the act that goes on just before you, having heard it from you at rehearsal, now performs your act.
How would you feel?
Do you think that the thief deserves the respect of the public?
That happened to me once in grade school. The teacher gave us a description and asked us to draw a picture of it. I was the only one in the class who figured out what she was really describing. A friend next to me asked me what I was drawing since it didn't look at all like anything anyone else was drawing, and I told him. He quickly revised his drawing and got called on first to present, and got credit for figuring out the right answer. It's just a risk one takes about being open with one's ideas and work.