Ethereum is toast now.  Its basic foundation is shaken.  Sell now and get out.

Let's make this clear, to the hacker:

Being decentralized means being in the power of people, not a directive board or in the code, you just stole 3.6 million ether but for nothing because you will not be able to withdraw you dumb, you can't take any legal action because people (51%) did not authorized your theft, and you said you will sue? LOL yes, sue us all 10k investors,  you are speaking only fantasies.  

Then to slock it and ethereum team:

Ethereum should make a hard fork and return all ether to DAO holders, that was just a buggy code giving away money to a robber without a reason, the people behind this DAO (investors) never authorized that DAO split, otherwise I would think of an INSIDE job and I would call you all scammers, slock.it and Ethereum, and with more reason now that slock it is closing, if you don't make the roll back this will look like an scam by you.

Agreed it hurts but it's true

Agree.
Letting anyone get away with this would be madness and the most detrimental outcome.

What means your "3k put on ethereum" ?? you are more dumb than the attacker, those bugs should affect the price for sure as any other bug on technologies but thats all, your "eth price will never recover" is only your proofless especulation opinion, as any other on the speculation topic.

People don't make deals with thieves, he will get 0 ether.

90% back?, if someone gets into your hause and takes your 5 childs, you will say "hey just return me 4 of them"?? , you are very idiot.

That is and for other reasons why I stated if there isn't a full Ether re-fund to investors via the fork, Devs will automatically appear as the thieves.

The atacker is clearly not doing it only for the money, he wants to kill DAO (which succeded) and hurt Ethereum, if he receives the funds stolen he will not return anything, I only stated than negotiating with thieves is wrong in crypto, outside life and any other environment just like the governments do (the few correct things governments do), this is what can really kill ethereum if they start making deals with a supposed hacker putting us down to a cryptsy scammy exchange level.

Hard-fork in this case isn't really an issue of decentralization, its about the mode of legitimacy and the consensus about it. People that are in favor of smart-contracts as the new form of legitimacy should mine on the fork that favors the DAO's law against its spirit, and the people that are in favor of smart-contracts requiring safeguards, like banks and current laws, should mine on the fork that favors the spirit of DAO against it's law. If one fork wins over the other, it doesn't mean its decentralized, but it will probably mean that people much prefer the human law and not the smart-contracts, ironically, even when they invested in DAO exactly for the opposite reason. Of course this is painting it rather black and white, a more sane approach would just be to say we're obviously not ready for smart-law and it will take a while before we can get there, with perhaps many more forks in the road.

If it's miners that decide whether to walk path A or path B, I'm not entirely sure, why it should be less decentralized than before.