hard forking a change to solve a problem that doesn't exist in a pointless rush on the say so of a corporate lobby when a superior soft forked development that facilitates deeper progress for the project as a whole is imminent simply doesn't compute
My thoughts exactly.
The bitcoin classic fork is an irresponsible attempt to seize power in the bitcoin world. It will fail.
Even if it is the right technical approach, they are going about it in the completely wrong way.
However it is not the right technical approach. SegWit is a much better approach to the TPM issue, and is in proper testing in the bitcoin-core test releases right now.
Stay away from bitcoin-classic.
I like Gavin but this attempt of his shows he has lost touch with reality and more importantly, lost touch with the community.