Whats funny is that Ripple inst (fully) open source. They are like twitter, claiming to be open source because a tiny part of their script is online.
Your right, Ripple is affraid their brand is not recognized enough to allow publish full open source, and they are right
Sure are. I was just going to suggest that since Ripple is open source, we should create a Ripple with BTC (or NMC) as the native currency (instead of XRP), and thus resolve the issue that the initial creators controlled 100% of the XRP.
Still, if the underlying idea isn't patented, isn't this something we could do?
That would be an online wallet. As I said before, Ripple isnt fully open source.