Interesting "Vitalik Buterin in the past, have indicated at least tacit support for spin-off efforts growing out of the project.
He told Backchannel in an interview earlier this year that in the event of a community split, he’d be “quite happy” for the project to adopt a different approach.
"I generally support just about every secession attempt that comes along. If in the future there is that kind of a dispute in ethereum, I’d definitely be quite happy to see ethereum A go in one direction and ethereum B go the other,” he told the publication."
http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-hard-fork-creates-competing-currencies-support-ethereum-classic-rises/
I definitely like the fact that Vitalik has been so understanding all along of those who opposed the hard fork. It's pretty refreshing compared to the bitter infighting over block size in the btc ecosystem.