That's not the value of the bitcoin, it's the value of the cryptographic code which has been open sourced. Anybody can fork it and create its own "Webcoin", but

That's not the value of the bitcoin, it's the value of the cryptographic code which has been open sourced. Anybody can fork it and create its own "Webcoin", but there's no intrinsic value in any forked instance coin, beyond the publicity that allows early adopters to cash in.