I don't understand, objectively Justin has enough money to blow, he spent a lot bidding for a dinner with Warren Buffet, if I recall correctly. If he spent a fraction of a fraction of what he spent on Steem acquisition they could, at the very least, blatantly copy our hardforks and open source projects, but not even that.
Steem = artificial and stuck on time
Hive = organic and developing
It would be awesome for both if they had their own devs doing their own thing so we could both improve on top of what each other build, but not even copying they do... Shame....
My understanding is that there's actually a lot more technical difficultly in copying what we do than one would logically assume. Especially now that we've done multiple hardforks in a row while they've done nothing.