Someone said good things below are just a fantasy.

The good things would be:

1. It could exist as long as FSF exists.
2. It could become the main libre distribution, effectively obsoleting other libre distributions, which in turn unites the shattered community.

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I remind that GNU project was a fantasy. Linux was a fantasy. Sage was fantasy. Everyone who believed in those fantasies has been blamed to be crazy and out of mind.

Someone said fragmentation is good because there is diversity like in cola drinks. That is, however, apples and oranges analogy. There is no bugs to fix in cola drinks and it is great if there is sustainable business for 1000 different cola drinks.

But a cola drink have nothing to do with OS. It is bad if there are 10 different sucky libre operating systems, each of them failing to fix bugs, when there could be one main libre system which could be developed to be superior derivate.

Why should there be 10 extreme minority libre distros, even if they would manage to fix bugs. Why to fix the same bugs in 10 different libre distros, when bugs could be fixed in one distro?

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