http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-vitalik-buterin-classic-blockchain/Overall, the organization has elected to stand by the informal community voting that lead to the hard fork, executed roughly one week ago, while indicating it would not seek to hinder progress on any alternative ethereum projects, such as Ethereum Classic.
Buterin wrote:
"We recognize that the ethereum code can be used to instantiate other blockchains with the same consensus rules, including testnets, consortium and private chains, clones and spin-offs, and have never been opposed to such instantiations."
Further, Buterin encouraged the Ethereum Classic team to execute an additional hard fork that would guard its blockchain from replay attacks by moving classic ethers, or the currency units on the alternative blockchain, to new accounts.
