Open can mean many things. For example all transactions on ripple are publicly available. I'd call that open. You probably want a full open source stack including server software. This is announced, but wasting time of jk here on the forum won't help getting this published faster.
But their page lists a GitHub account (as if that is the source of entire Ripple) and their wiki says that Ripple is COMPLETELY open source and COMPLETELY decentralized, while that is an outright lie.
Don't you get my point ? That is a lie. Lying is what scammers do.
I agree with this. There wouldn't be anyone calling you scammers if you were honest (but that probably won't get you the bitcoin community to hop in), but you are misleading people in thinking Ripple is something
for the "free money" movement when it is clearly against it and is set to stop / destroy Bitcoin with false advertising and commercial backing.
The fact that you
plan to make it open source and actually distributed (not decentralized) until much later does not come into pay, see earlier comments on competition.