XRP can still be successful and good even though it's not as noble as Bitcoin.
I sympathise with your conciliatory sentiments, but what is it about Bitcoin that strikes you as nobler than Ripple?
The lack of a 100% pre-mine for starters? I don't see why RealSolid is forever marked a scammer for pre-mining a million SolidCoins while OpenCoin gets away with pre-mining 100 billion XRP. Somebody explain this to me.
Because OpenCoin is creating a large, complex piece of software which will be released as open source. So in exchange for the large "premine" they are creating significant value.
The additional value that SolidCoins could offer was very little in comparison to that.