Fixed a race condition problem

[sateffen]

Fixed a problem where Code looking like

var vm = {
    text = ko.observable('');
}
ko.applyBindings(vm, element);
vm.text('hello world');

Would result in resetting the observable in vm.text, so the text 'hello world' never gets shown.

[luisfernandobarrera]

I had the same problem and I fixed it with the proposed patch +1