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It seems misleading to call something "bitcoin classic" that would implement a hard fork.

The bitcoin implementation by the "real" bitcoin foundation (ie, asciilifeform's group) at least can claim that it is an implementation of the actual bitcoin protocol:

http://thebitcoin.foundation/

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The original Bitcoin didn't include any block limit and Bitcoin's inventor wasn't worried about block size being too large[0]. The current 1MB limit was itself a hard fork of the original as a temporary spam protection measure while the network was in it's infancy. So the name really isn't misleading. A lot of people are ignorant of the history of the block size limit though.

[0] http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099...

It was a soft fork.

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