Single Lennart of Failure?

Yes, this starts to remind me of the late-1990s UNIX® vendors saying well, you can't guarantee this Linux thing is going to stay around, and you can't be sure these x86 PC vendors will stay in business. Well gee, I know how they're going to stay in business, they'll use all this cash I'm going to give them instead of you.

And sure enough, seen from 2014 those points look ridiculous. Everybody wants to assure you that you're safe with them, but the reality is that it's the economics, if nobody else is using systemd in five years it'll take a lot of Red Hat effort to keep RHEL 7's systemd on life support. But most likely everybody will be using systemd in five years, and so it'll be no different from supporting X or GCC or dozens of other important complicated moving parts that everybody shares.