lol at people buying open source software that can and will be replicated and used for free if successfull. lol.
You mean like buying Bitcoins?
Just like with Bitcoins, the only thing that matters is merchant / industry adoption. You can copy the shit out of it all you want. Wont matter if nobody uses it. And humans always follow like sheep. Businesses especially, as confidence and peace of mind always go along with well-known specific paths. If Ethereum gets the business world on board, it wont matter that it's open source. Nobody will use the copied versions.
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