So it can coexist after all it seems.
When only 3% of the Ethereum community voted on the hard fork, it's a bit ambitious to hail "the community has chosen".
... And here we all are.
Personally I like the devs reasons for supporting ETH Classic. Here is a great article by him over on Medium, enjoy.
“A Crypto-Decentralist Manifesto” _novosti https://medium.com/@bit_novosti/a-crypto-decentralist-manifesto-6ba1fa0b9ede