Lykke and Pillar Project coming out with a ICO is almost the same project. The guy making the Pillar Project work in Lykkes slack channel and wrote an article for them
https://medium.com/@pullnews/the-story-of-the-lykke-coin-251b8179480c. Someone complained about someone copying the Lykke project and Tempus was trolling the guy acting very strange so I decided to start researching. I would think his reaction is wow i need to tell Richard about this. This is the pillar project
https://us.pillarproject.io/. Also the story of the pillar project just like the lykke project...
https://theascent.biz/the-story-of-the-pillar-project-bc7a653c8931. There is another one called the mother ship same idea and the road map is formatted just like the lykke roap map. Not sure now if Lykke is for real or just rolling out ICOs with the same idea.
Pillar is not related to Lykke. There are also no relations between Lykke and Mothership.
People are free to build teams and to present their whitepapers and goals to potential Investors who have to come to own conclusions and to make their choice if to invest in a project or not. And its always a good choice to dig deep to find out if something may have quality and a chance or not. I personally dont know anything about mothership so far and if it could be seen as similar to Lykke or even a competitor. What I know about Pillar - I have zero concerns that it could turn out as competitor.
About this:
"Someone complained about someone copying the Lykke project and Tempus was trolling the guy acting very strange so I decided to start researching." I didn't defend Pillar in any way, but I disagreed with implications that David Siegel is a scammer or "stabbed Richard in the back". As far as I know: Nobody in Lykke is concerned about Pillar. The rest of the discussion on slack was pretty personal because I then was accused to work for Pillar or that I should leave Lykke to work for Pillar, being a scum and delusional and so on - so I just defended myself.
Agreed with all this, the issue raised is understandable though as David Siegel is known for its work on Lykke University for example. So I would ask him about Lykke if I were about to invest in Pillar for example not the other way around.
There are many projects similar to Lykke that were started before too, like Waves or Bitshares who share similar characteristics. There's also new ones like Mothership and I'm sure there will be many upcoming ones as Blockchain keep evolving so I don't see the point in dwelling or speculating on that. I would go as far as saying Litecoin or Expanse are direct forks of Bitcoin and Expanse and I don't see any problem with that, the best one will win, and it's safe to assume there's room for more than one in every niche.