I think cryptos are even bust without friendly competition. Our slack is the home of over five Coins, some have been quite similar in the beginning.
But all have grown much better through exchange of knowledge, developers and resources and we all automatically diversified into specific concepts.
Through friendly competition every coin got better and no coin was in danger to get replaced. It shaped our coins and made them fall in to their specific niche.
As i think most, of the Ether team members, they feel exactly like that. We are all bust on our own (REALLY there would no chance of any altcoin on his own, not sure about Bitcoin)
and THIS project here, is definitively a step forward, i would not like to miss this innovation, to come into existence.
Its that significant, that i would have much more advantage from being able to learn from the code or from using the code then from the (of course welcome)
few miserable bitcoins more or less to spend ...
looking forward to play around with this one,
it will fill my pockets anyway
Matthias

Indeed!
I have recently begun my journey to coding (learning from scratch!), mainly because of projects like Ethereum and now Lisk.
I am certain the path will be a long one, and that learning to code efficiently will require hard work, discipline and experience above all.