I think it is a bit misguided to suggest it will surpass Ethereum right now though.

Who said that Lisk will surpass Ethereum "right now"?

When it comes to writing smart contracts ...

Lisk isn't a smart contract platform, it's a distributed blockchain application development platform

Ethereum’s code is open source.

So is Lisk code

As mentioned in point two, what you said is false.

What are you referring to?

If you use a private Ethereum chain you can pre-allocate tokens as I mentioned so the proof of work vs. proof of stake doesn’t really matter there.

What about for computational transactions on the blockchain?  Is there no difference between proof of work and proof of stake for such transaction times?  I was under the impression that there was.  

I am not saying that Ethereum is perfect. It has a lot of issues, ...

That's for sure.  It's way too slow.  It's already failing to provide the computational capacity for some of the applications built upon it, and the Ethereum Developers have done next to nothing in response to this problem, thus far.  

Think about all the companies that have already joined the EEA. They aren’t going to immediately abandon Ethereum the second something new comes along.

First of all, the EEA is nothing but a beta project.  It's a project to justify funds that were allocated by those companies to research blockchain technology.  Many of these companies were previously researching other blockchain platforms and prospects with r3, through a different consortium.  Once these companies are finished writing up a proof of concept for an Ethereum-based blockchain, if they ever get that far, they'll likely just move on to the next platform to research.  Also, as I understand it, the Engineers working on this EEA Ethereum fork are not having a pleasant time with the Ethereum design and the EVM.  I would be very surprised if anything from this Ethereum experiment ever went to production.  

Lastly, I'd like to point out that the Ethereum-based platform that the EEA is experimenting with is just that, an Ethereum-based fork.  They're not working with the public Ethereum blockchain, so it's irrational for all of these Ethereum "investors" out there to be enthusiastic about this EEA project in the first place, as this project isn't even using the public chain that they own tokens on.  If they were working with Lisk, they wouldn't need to fork Lisk to get themselves a private chain, they could just operate on a Lisk side chain with the privacy-based design constructs that would be available to them.