OMG I can't believe they're planning a hardfork to "unsteal" the loot.
Thats the deathnell for any coin. But what are they forking - just the DAO ?
It's certainly not 'autonomous' if someone used its rules to pay them self and then humans come in and reverse that.
It's not self-governing at that point.
DAO gets worse:
The DAO will be winded down completely and transformed into a simple contract where you can only withdraw. Its shutting down but as no ether was stolen and no ether was spent, nothing was lost.