first release of PyPy

[beliavsky at aol.com]

Kay Schluehr wrote:
> holger krekel wrote:
> > Welcome to PyPy 0.6
> > --------------------
> >
> > *The PyPy Development Team is happy to announce the first
> > public release of PyPy after two years of spare-time and
> > half a year of EU funded development.  The 0.6 release
> > is eminently a preview release.*
>
> Congratulation to You and Your team!
>
> PyPy is really awesome and if it succeeds in speed demands after the
> translation phase I believe that the project will shift the power
> within the Python community on the long run.

Could you please explain this statement? Who will gain power, and who
will lose it? Are you suggesting that CPython and PyPy developers are
competing?