Although I was looking forward to free coins, I still am! The hardfork is only suspended, not cancelled. Sure it may be quite a while before the next hardfork, but it's nothing to be concerned about then even. As this was stated by Mike Belshe:
So the takeaway from this is, the best decision was made to keep the bitcoin community together and remain stronger. As we all know, those divided can be more easily conquered and we need to remain the strong world-wide decentralized community.