I guess you’ll also have to avoid adopting C++ and Javascript and Python and JSON…
Rust doesn't even have a formal spec, it's just whatever rustc admits. The potential for a single corporation to steer that for its own benefit seems greater to me. And we know how MS has attempted to destroy Linux before, in particular with its incursion with .NET in Gnome.
*some versions of some implementations
Funny but not untrue!