I disagree. The witnesses were open to talk with Justin. He only had to put his verbal commitments into something more concrete and the soft fork would of gone away. Instead, he used peoples Steem on exchanges to try a hostile takeover. I can't see how that's legal. He might of had a legal route option but surely that's gone now.

If the community didn't like the soft fork, we had the option to remove votes from the witnesses that implemented it. I was willing to wait and see how the discussions with Justin, the Steemit Inc employees and the witnesses went but now Justin has ruined the chance of that happening.