would it be possible to do something like cross chaining between the two networks? they are basically the same.
Based on what we learned from a former board member, Jed threw a tantrum after Chris and other board members blocked his financing proposal that could've potentially made him a lot of money. How did Jed react? By leaving Ripple and announcing the imminent sales of his premine which tanked the market. After that, Jed and his girlfriend created Stellar, a cousin of Ripple.
Jed is freaking smart, but he is greedy and his two centralized tokens lack any social ideology. It is a vehicle designed to make him an enormous amount of money. Whether investors will buy in to his scheme remains to be seen, but Stellar and Ripple will not work together as long as the existing boards of either organizations remain.
LMFAO @ this. No different then Ripple then.
Once either gets too big they will get raided by the US government and then get shut down. Centralization doesn't look too good from the interior of a jail cell.
yeah. not good if ever that happens. ripple labs is developing their implementation of smart contracts (plus more). would hate to see it go to waste: http://codius.org
hopefully another dev team will take over.