the source of the article is altcoinpress.com. While I am not familiar with this news service, I think their domain should be a pretty good indicator of their ability to be fair and balanced to Bitcoin. (Note that I have pretty much zero interest in reading the article nor did I)
In others words, there is nothing to see here and you can move along.
Alternative currencies are
VITAL to pointing out flaws and improving upon Satoshi's design. Burying your head in the sand is probably not useful.