Nice lets buy this 70% premined shitcoin.
dozen of banks integrating ripple soon. Up to you to be a fool.
Topic: [ANN] Ripple is officially open-source! w/link - page 2. (Read 24528 times)
dozen of banks integrating ripple soon. Up to you to be a fool.
Ripple baby yeh!
I'll just skip over the profanity you posted and give you the answer you seem ignorant about for quite a while now
Look, this is the question I have been asking right from the start, don't try to act smart by calling me ignorant of it; of course, because I am asking the question.I want to address a few questions that I know will come up:
1. Forks
People will fork the network pretty much instantly (as soon as they can figure out our config files
), so does that worry me re: job security? Of course. But that's the whole point of open-sourcing: It's one thing we can do to help keep us honest. I believe as long as we continue to live up to our promises, work hard and provide value to users, they will continue to use our network. And in doing so they're supporting our effort to build out the software and extend the network through any and all means available until all XRP are sold or given away.
I don't believe in closed-source, I don't believe in copyright, but I do believe in supporting the artists, the developers and entrepreneurs who make things happen. We have a growing team of people with big ideas and ambitious plans. So please consider using the original network so we can continue to develop amazing features and integrate every payment system on the face of the planet.
One final request for those planning to fork: If you do fork, please come up with a unique name for your network and a different currency code than XRP. A little search and replace won't kill you and you'll make life a lot easier and less confusing for both our users and your own.
1. Forks
People will fork the network pretty much instantly (as soon as they can figure out our config files
), so does that worry me re: job security? Of course. But that's the whole point of open-sourcing: It's one thing we can do to help keep us honest. I believe as long as we continue to live up to our promises, work hard and provide value to users, they will continue to use our network. And in doing so they're supporting our effort to build out the software and extend the network through any and all means available until all XRP are sold or given away.I don't believe in closed-source, I don't believe in copyright, but I do believe in supporting the artists, the developers and entrepreneurs who make things happen. We have a growing team of people with big ideas and ambitious plans. So please consider using the original network so we can continue to develop amazing features and integrate every payment system on the face of the planet.
One final request for those planning to fork: If you do fork, please come up with a unique name for your network and a different currency code than XRP. A little search and replace won't kill you and you'll make life a lot easier and less confusing for both our users and your own.
I'm digging thru the code trying to get what it is about. It will take a lot of time to get understanding of the sources without a good manual. Is there any btw?
Besides the README files and comments in the code, a more high level view and understanding is possible by reading respective articles on the wiki: https://ripple.com/wiki/Main_Page(By the way, you might want to correct your trust rating to mah87 - forgot to check that box?).
Nope, he "earned" that rating fair and square by spamming me. See the linked thread in the rating. I don't think that this warrants a "This rating is negative -- the person is not trustworthy:" tag, however people are free to see my opinion of this and act accordingly. I'll just go ahead and give you a similar one... 
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Stop feeding the troll, please.
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Just put him into ignore, and be done with it.
Stop feeding the troll, please.
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Just put him into ignore, and be done with it.
oh wow. this thread is alive again. 
There is only one "open source" criteria: "Is it possible to altcoin Ripple?" Now please state Yes or No, explain why[...].
I'll just skip over the profanity you posted and give you the answer you seem ignorant about for quite a while now:Yes, it is perfectly possible to start a new ledger independently from the one that OpenCoin started ~1 year ago. In fact, that's even the default(!) mode if you just run rippled with no further switches...
This is also clearly stated in the original announcement from half a year ago.
Your definition of "open source" is by the way not one that is shared by many people and I would recommend to find a different term for that specific requirement of yours ("forkability"?), as "open source" as well as "free software/FLOSS" are actually quite well defined and do not mean what you try to underline with your expletives.
Nobody can run an identical Bitcoin network either, as that would be a hardfork of the block chain.
Look, I mean "works the same as". You're nitpicking because you have nothing else to say.And the github notion of "fork" is not what I meant either, obviously.
Fucking fuck. The level of stupidity here. I know, this is Bitcointalk, and worse, the Altcoin subforum. I should expect it.
Let me explain it in another way for you retards. There is only one "open source" criteria: "Is it possible to altcoin Ripple?" Now please state Yes or No, explain why, but stop bullshitting on things you obviously do not understand.
To explain further, look at what the NXT developer did when he released the source code. He said it was released voluntarily with flaws. Was that open source? Fuck no.
Another example: https://github.com/riecoin/riecoin/tree/9caaa5e7e15d778d9aadce58de4430c012492fff this is not open source
But this is: https://github.com/riecoin/riecoin/tree/bcf104b1e7fc1d0be6dbc8cd60b3621dbfa0b839
OMG!
You, fucking retard, do not understand that "open source" means that software source codes are distributed under open license, which is the case with ripple. And if you would not be a fucking retard, you would be able to go to github, clone ripple code, and start your own ledger. There are people, who are not as stupid as yourself, retard, and they are doing this right now.
Nobody can run an identical Bitcoin network either, as that would be a hardfork of the block chain.
Look, I mean "works the same as". You're nitpicking because you have nothing else to say.And the github notion of "fork" is not what I meant either, obviously.
Fucking fuck. The level of stupidity here. I know, this is Bitcointalk, and worse, the Altcoin subforum. I should expect it.
Let me explain it in another way for you retards. There is only one "open source" criteria: "Is it possible to altcoin Ripple?" Now please state Yes or No, explain why, but stop bullshitting on things you obviously do not understand.
The answer is yes. This is so obvious that people are going beyond this thought which is far more interesting.
https://github.com/ripple
You can setup anything and start your own Nipple network if you want.
Ok, I give up, he's trolling.
Oh so there is no actual working fork?
So again, as long as someone can't run an identical Ripple network, it's not open source. Thank you all!
Nobody can run an identical Bitcoin network either, as that would be a hardfork of the block chain. "Bitcoin" is defined as the Satoshi block chain. You can however more or less easil change a few things in the code (checkpoints...), create a new genesis block and run a new network with the same rules as Bitcoin.So again, as long as someone can't run an identical Ripple network, it's not open source. Thank you all!
It's the same with Ripple - you can compile and run a node in the OpenCoin ledger chain or you can create your own (even easier than with Bitcoin, as there are no checkpoint hashes afaik.). This would (just like a "Bitcoin2" with a different genesis block) however be a full hard fork of the current ledger, so you (just as with Bitcoin) won't be able to transfer anything to/from people using the mainline network.
If you want to go further, you can also change rules inside Ripple too (e.g. start with 100 instead of 100 billion XRP, create new ledgers every 3.14 seconds...) and so on. Calling something not "open source" (which is a quite well defined term - rippled even is "free software") because nobody bothered to do that is a bit... strange.
Here are some "forks" (mostly working branches from developers for the mainline implementation though): https://github.com/ripple/rippled/network
Unfortunately there is no real released fork of Ripple so far
Making fork is a waste of time. If someone have free time, it is better to spend it either on improving ripple by providing third party software on top of ripple protocol, or on developing true ripple competitor with better features.
Oh so there is no actual working fork?
So again, as long as someone can't run an identical Ripple network, it's not open source. Thank you all!
So again, as long as someone can't run an identical Ripple network, it's not open source. Thank you all!
If there is no working fork yet, it does not mean that nobody can make it. RL released sources of rippled just several month ago, making ripple completely open source. A fork can not pop up by itself overnight. In first place, somebody should be willing to spend time and efforts on it.
Unfortunately there is no real released fork of Ripple so far, NWO seems to have decided he wants to write his own software, Splash so far has just a thread with intentions and nothing more and ProtoShares wnats to implement consensus but that's only the double spend prevention part.
It would be possible of course, depending on what you want to do, you might be wise to stay back for a while longer until rippled gets a bit more stable and the refactoring efforts are completed. They recently hired a guy for developer relations though, so if someone reads this and thinks of starting something, please contact RippleLabs by all means!
It would be possible of course, depending on what you want to do, you might be wise to stay back for a while longer until rippled gets a bit more stable and the refactoring efforts are completed. They recently hired a guy for developer relations though, so if someone reads this and thinks of starting something, please contact RippleLabs by all means!
Anyone can fork Gnome, and, say, call it Dwarf.
The documentation and the tools to build it are there. And you can run it on your system.
Please, try to learn how software works before opening your mouths, learn to read, and stop being such retards. You guys are really testing my patience (besides mah87 the serial scammer where I didn't expect anything more).
Really, Ripple satisfies my criteria of being open source, and you guys are still nitpicking on things you obviously don't understand.
I perfectly know how software works, so I can easily understand how a huge amount of work would be to replicate something as the ripple network.The documentation and the tools to build it are there. And you can run it on your system.
Please, try to learn how software works before opening your mouths, learn to read, and stop being such retards. You guys are really testing my patience (besides mah87 the serial scammer where I didn't expect anything more).
Really, Ripple satisfies my criteria of being open source, and you guys are still nitpicking on things you obviously don't understand.
It will not happen simply because it makes no sense to do that: 1:1 clones are worthless, just like for Bitcoin.
The problem with ripple they still confusing the general public, instead say "100 billion ripple" etc. (so why not DOGE instead 
? ) they should compare strait to paypal system ...
? ) they should compare strait to paypal system ...They don't communicate to masses yet, that's why don't like it, yet.
The problem with ripple they still confusing the general public, instead say "100 billion ripple" etc. (so why not DOGE instead ? ) they should compare strait to paypal system ...
? ) they should compare strait to paypal system ... 
retarded
retards
At this point this word is all I'll be using in regards to the still remaining ripple haters. Is anyone running a competing network yet? If no, why?
There is more information on forks here, especially the second one, splash, looks promising but there is little new information on it.
https://ripple.com/wiki/Forks
As usual, mah87's reply is retarded. If you claim your thing is open source, you have to make everything possible for it to be forked, this includes proper documentation, releasing all needed tools, etc.
You think forking and build interesting things is easy, THIS is retarded.
or you really think you just can "fork Gnome"? Can you do that, if you want to?
pankkake, I'm again disappointed. You are either obviously trolling, or you have shut down your brain completely.
(and that's a pity, because usually you gave good replies...)
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