Again, this is not a good comparison. It is true that most bit coins are in the hands of early adopters, but they have nowhere near the same power to affect the value of each Bitcoin as OpenCoin has with Ripple. The can try to use their wealth to impact market forces, but they are in in full control of a protocol that, as of this moment, is closed and centralized.
Sure, I was talking about after the code has been released. Ripple won't be more than a promise until then. But Satoshi could dump his BTC at any time. Are you worried about that?
In the long run, no. Bitcoin is still a really good idea, and if satoshi dumped a couple million BTC, the market would absorb them. Sure, the price would drop, but given time, it would also recover because there is value in the very idea of Bitcoin.
Let's wait till OpenCoin opens Ripple and see if it truly becomes decentralized, then there might be ways in which it could complement Bitcoin. Right now, it doesn't.