OpenCoin has done nothing to earn the coins they're holding back except write code for a concept that may or may not work.
The notion of "earn" is entirely subjective. Plenty of people hold the opinion that the early miners are unjustly enriched.
Early miners participated in a process that was open to anybody, and were not compensated anywhere near 100%. Even Satoshi is not worthy of 100% of all Bitcoins.
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weren't you very much against Ripple at the beginning. IIRC, you wrote pages and pages of arguments against it.
what was
the key factor in you switching?
+1
Somebody slipped him a few XRP for his trouble?