Ripple is hardly a 2nd mover to bitcoin, because it's a completely different system.
Ripple is centralised and belongs to a single company, it's not free as in freedom, like bitcoin, but more like amazon bonus dollars or similar pointless additions.
In short: if someone tries to tell you that ripple could be anything like bitcoin he's simply trying to scam you (or he's an idiot who doesn't understand a thing about bitcoin).
Also, im tired of reading ripple spam on this bitcoin-forum, post your private-company-money scams elsewhere please.