I don’t know what y’all are so ruffled about.
The actual value of the nix ecosystem lies in nixpkgs, and DetSys has no real influence over that part.
As long as the nixpkgs community wants to support more than one implementation, nixpkgs will be the conservative side of the ecosystem that prevents a single company from running away with the prize.
potential mea culpa
(Please don’t quote me on this in five years 
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