I know in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, but I am going to be fairly irritated if some coin takes Darksend, rebrands it and uses it for a big pump. Would be cool if the crypto community ostracized any coins who blatantly take and apply Darksend to their coins for the purpose of pumping.
Darksend requires masternodes. The masternode source has been open for months. Nobody has cloned a thousand masternodes yet. Hell the darksend diagram effectively open-sourced darksend+ months ago too - it's no secret how it works.
There will be a few new shitclones that will have a short pump, an inevitable dump, and the idiots will get taken for a ride as they always do, but there will be no serious competition after today anymore than there was before today.
What there
will hopefully be after today is proof to anyone who cares (anyone to whom privacy is actually important) that darksend is trustworthy and can be safely adopted.