If you don't have the ability to merge, would the copies get equal rights as the original? Or would the original control all the resources and the copies get treated as second class citizens? If the copies were second class citizens, I would probably not fork because this would result in slavery.

If the copies do get equal rights, how do you plan to allocate resources that you had before forking such as wealth and friends? If I split the wealth down the middle, I would probably be OK with the lack of merging. However, I'm not sure how I would divide up soci... (read more)