don't get why people are so upset about this, aside from being misled by the utterly mistaken belief that there should be a centralised authority in control, which runs wholly contrary to the entire concept behind Bitcoin.
Well, maybe because it crashes the price badly everytime bitcoin forks into different bitcoins and destroys the network effect confusing people. "Oh wow, there are 3 bitcoins now? what do I buy?"
They know their shitcoin would never gain traction as an altcoin, so they try to steal the bitcoin brand by bribing corporations into accepting their shitcoin altfork.
Satoshi said clearly that he didn't want his software forked for technical reasons. Stop selling this bullshit as if it's good for bitcoin.
If the only thing you care about is the fiat price of your coins, then frankly I don't give a shit what your opinion is. Freedom doesn't have a price tag. I stand firmly on the side of the argument that freedom is infinitely more valuable than some government IOUs. Obsess about those all you like, just don't expect anyone else to care.
And no one is stealing anything, you ignorant asshat. Stealing implies that someone owns the Bitcoin brand, so perhaps you could explain who that is, exactly? As far as I was aware, no one own or controls Bitcoin. Bitcoin is influenced by the code people freely choose to run. If it turns out that enough people want to run different code, that's not an act of theft. Either accept that, or go use some closed-source crapcoin like Ripple where no one has a choice. It sounds like you prefer the ideals of closed-source development where no one can fork the code, so what the fuck are you even doing here?
I keep hearing about this bribery like it was some sort of documented fact. Where is the funding from this bribery coming from? Who, exactly, is bribing who? Do you have any actual evidence for any of these seemingly baseless accusations? If not, I'd ask that you stop talking shit.
And stop the pathetic appeals to authority about what Satoshi would or wouldn't have wanted. It's just getting sad now. Even Satoshi isn't in a position where they can tell people what to do (nor did they ever express the will to do so), so why do you think you are in a position to tell everyone what code they can or can't run? Everyone has a choice and you can't tell them how to choose. You and all the other authoritarian fuckwits on this board can go start your own DictatorCoin if you think you can force your views onto everyone else. That shit doesn't fly here.