This coin is no different than Ripple... the only reason he is releasing it is because people were questioning how he was to distribute ripple fairly.
Now why should we support this coin Vs ripple? Even the article suggest it's the same.
There is little, if any difference, between Stellar and Ripple however. Indeed, the Stellar announcement suggests that Stellar is a continuation of Ripple for Jed McCaleb, who recently publicly announced that he was to sell all of his Ripple holdings due to what may have been an argument over the way the Ripple currency, much of which is still held by Ripple Labs, was to be distributed. Stellar aims to avoid this issue by distributing all of the currency, except for 5%, but it is yet to be seen how quickly the Stellar Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization, will be able to do so or to what extent Bitcoin and ripple holders will claim their share.
Additionally, it's amazing what people will support and write about on their blogs. The guy makes a coin, it sucks... so he does the same thing again and now we're supposed to think it's neat... because of a new name? No thanks.
