Immutable: In object-oriented and functional programming, an immutable object (unchangeable object) is an object whose state cannot be modified after it is created. This never applied to Ethereum, because the crowdfunding period pre-announced a POS stage, which always required a FORK too implement. Clearly, the ETC CAMPERS have erased a lot of announcements to suit their own agenda!
Immutable blockchain, not immutable code. ETC is not against forks: "[...] system forks of the codebase are only possible when fixing protocol level vulnerabilities, bugs, or providing functionality upgrades" and " transactions or ledger history cannot for any reason be reversed or modified."
Which fork now, has the same principals as when Ethereum was created? ETH or ETC?
Isn't it obvious?
ETHC changed nothing and has same principals as when Ethereum was created. ETHF mutated to bail out greedy DAO speculators.
I was kinda thinking ETH was the old principal since it retained the identifier, but reading news and forums about both forks is abit confusing.... kinda like a soap opera, person W sleeping with X to backstab person Y who just murdered Z all because person T framed person V for a crime that person didn't commit because all along it was person S 's sinister plan.
I'm kinda tempted to build another mining rig just to have the bases covered.... ETC + ETH or BUST....
Technically ETC is the same ETH as it was before the fork, i.e. unmodified blockchain, same code.
ETH despite retaining the ticker has a modified chain - it injected a transaction to move DAO funds into a withdrawal contract.
So the basic principles as stated on ethereum.org ("applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.") hold true with ETC but not with ETH.
However as I'm sure you well know politics runs much deeper than that, mainly due to Vitalik and the Foundation backing ETH and not ETC.