All of you seem to be missing the fact that the point of the post is that there is a shared feeling that, was Ruby backed by some big companies now it would be

All of you seem to be missing the fact that the point of the post is that there is a shared feeling that, was Ruby backed by some big companies now it would be as fast as the current competitors, so this, or something similar (a different kind of funding path) is what needs to happen. What the post also stresses is that we are seeing something move in this direction (hint: check the comments at the article page).