| Response from Jed that I stumbled on the last time I was researching this. Oddly enough, I cannot find the response on Quora anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7n8ntb/david_schwa... > David I always enjoyed working with you and I thought we had a degree of respect for each other so I'm pretty disappointed in your tone here. I don't really want to get into a big back and forth about this but this just isn't correct. When I left ripple the board was 2 people; myself and Chris. > I left because I made the mistake of bringing Chris on as CEO and it ended up being untenable to work with him for a variety of reasons. > I feel like I've been extremely restrained in my criticism of ripple despite the frivolous lawsuits from you guys the constant attacks on my character and my family. I know you are actually a good person but I think you are in too deep to see how horrible Chris has acted toward me. > Stellar hasn't abandoned the idea of distributing the lumens widely and the original facebook distribution was actually a success but the software/ecosystem wasn't ready for it at the time so we stopped it. We will do something similar in the future. I don't think any attempt at an internet level protocol like stellar or ripple can be widely adopted with a for profit company owning the majority of the tokens. > Stellar has always been focused on cross border payments so the IBM announcement isn't a pivot by any means. > Stellar and ripple are going after two completely different use cases as far as I can tell so I don't understand the continued hostility. |