user439: ripple server code is still private and beta. 
There is no legality preventing Open Coin to print more XRP now as it is a private company and the network is not at a stage where it is wide scale distributed like bitcoin for consensus process to have any meaning in this aspect.

user85: Doing so would subject OpenCoin to lawsuits due to promissory estoppel. OpenCoin's statement that they will not do so is effectively a warranty. And, of course, it would be a completely self-destructive thing for them to do.
(I am an employee of OpenCoin, speaking only for myself.)

439: <p>ripple server code is still private and beta. </p>

<p>There is no legality preventing Open Coin to print more XRP now as it is a private company and the network is not at a stage where it is wide scale distributed like bitcoin for consensus process to have any meaning in this aspect.</p>
 85: <p>Doing so would subject OpenCoin to lawsuits due to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel">promissory estoppel</a>. OpenCoin's statement that they will not do so is effectively a warranty. And, of course, it would be a completely self-destructive thing for them to do.</p>

<p>(I am an employee of OpenCoin, speaking only for myself.)</p>
