Ripple hasn't spawned a flood of rip-of-the-day scamcoins yet so it will be interesting to see whether NXT does once its source code is released.
If it works, then maybe it might even turn out to be more compelling than Ripple as the platform for
MBC,
CDN, UKB, UNS, GMC, GRF, NKL etc to move to.
(The coins that, realising that securing a blockchain was insanely expensive to the point that it was simply not practical to even attempt it, moved to Open Transactions until such time as either they could reasonably expect to be able to secure a blockchain or some better platform / technology / format comes along. XRP has all kinds of extraneous stuff they do not need; if NXT is cleanly and simply just a cryptocurrency then maybe cloning NXT might be better than cloning XRP as a means of moving back to a distributed database format/platform. If not oh well it is not as if being only available on Open Transactins has hurt them much if at all, heck maybe it actually helped them. By making them not be vulnerable like blockchains are it maybe saved them from the ghastly ongoing suppressions of exhcange rate that kept bitcoin's value down for so long. Maybe all the alt chains forking and so on undermined confident in blockchains or something, all those irresponsible - criminally negligent maybe really - people putting out chains they had no intention of securing and no chance of securing might have trashed horribly the public's perception of how secure blockchains are maybe? Those coins ought never have been avle to ctch up with bitcoin in value let alone surpass it, that they did seems to maybe indicate that something somehow prevented bitcoin from exploding the way it should have, the way they did...)
-MarkM-