Its incredibly difficult to get bitcoins out of ripple without giving some service provider your government ID. I have some bitstamp coins stuck simply because I dont want to do this.
Avoid.
Wrong, you can simply put a Bitcoin address in the "send to" box and send BTC from within Ripple federated anonymously by Bitstamp. No ID or anything needed.
Guy looks like he knows his stuff. I would like to see someone refute his claims if such a thing is possible. Something more substantial than attacking the messenger.
I did, multiple times already. I stopped doing that though, since it really doesn't help anyways to eliminate suspicions (I just get called "shill" "protecting my investment in that obvious scam" and whatnot) and is not really worth my time. If you want to read a bit, feel free to check my post history here, on ripple.com or Reddit.
So how is it be open source and not open source at the same time, exactly? That at least you can surely stick around to answer.