RE: Introduction to EOS for non-technical people
To keep things simple I have ignored the possibility for this post. I think I might cover it in another post but its a fairly theoretical problem. Personally I think that there may be more than one EOS compatible chain but there will only be one community supported chain (the official EOS).
It would be hard to see how 2 or more identical chains can be sustainable. There might be a case where the chains disagree on politics and have a different constitution but I think that is unlikely too, a fork of the eos software with different goals (ie speed vs privacy) is also possible but very unlikely.
Of course there is a chance of bad things happening, but this is something people say about open source software all the time and it does not happen very often.
Plus, look on the bright side. If there are multiple chains with the same genesis block then you will get coins on every chain!
Indeed, I find the prospect of multiple EOS chains more interesting than SMTs, although I recognize use cases for SMTs I also see the potential of enterprise scale community blockchains.
Nobody can be sure how it will turn out - but it will be a fun ride!