Good point, I hadn't heard that myth. The only reason I can think of is that if I recall steemit had just gotten out of beta, and hive hard forked the steem and beta tested version of steemit, so all they had to do was use a text editor to replace all instances of steem with HIVE and a few other things to hard fork and clone the new platform.

Honestly I don't know, maybe it was their plan all along, maybe it was like a back up plan because they understood the vulnerability and realized that it would only be a matter of time. Also some of the steem whales probably were in talks with dan, and they knew he was going to sell, so they got to work on plan B HIVE! haha Thanks for the interesting comment.