There is a serious issue her nobody is talking about, my understanding is Ether is an open source project just like bitcoin, with added programming language. But being open source what's to stop anyone from creating a clone that sells contracts for less,
This came up on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1w0t3i/forking_ethereum/There are integrations, collaborations and partnerships that can't be forked. Also, if you want to start a business on Ethereum, would you want to risk starting it on a clone?
Another concern is all the ideas that are mentioned are not completely original...
That's true. Satoshi wanted to experiment with a scripting language. This idea has been around. The technologies to do this are finally coming together.
I have seen this whitepaper change three times already within a weekh for people to throw in the money. [/size]
The offical announcement is this weekend in Miami. You've been looking at the early drafts. However, I suspect there will be a lot of changes to Ethereum over the next 6 months as they test and tweak things.