Great decision, allowing PayPal to grow beyond the virtual ceiling placed by being governed by a marketplace company which rightly has its own agenda before PayPal's.
As long as the split does not disrupt the current relationship for buyers and sellers using Ebay. Right now the process is quite simple and there had been recent efforts to link the two sites even more, as in not needing to ever log into Paypal to complete ebay purchases.
I don't see why it would... ebay would still hold a significant percentage of paypal and influence such decision making. The main benefit will come from large competitors choosing Paypal as it becomes a less biased payment service and not one that directly profits a competitor. Essentially, Ebay will now have to pay closer to market-rate for processing.
