No, XT was not an alt coin, it was an alt client and the only fork was in code, not in the block chain.
No, Dustin, the entire raison d'etre of the XT client
was to fork the blockchain, it was hardcoded to activate on January 11th this year, lol.
bitcoin needs to be free and open.
And everyone is free to go to whichever competing Bitcoin messageboard they choose, of which there are now several. No-one's forcing the majority of people to go to theymos' forum, they're doing that using their own free will. Remember, that attribute you're saying you want to support? Because free will also includes the freedom to make incorrect observations, on public messageboards.