Well, there was a libre distro based on Slackware too. Talk about choise!
In my opinion it is very good to have libre derivatives of popular distros.
Maybe it takes another 5 years of evolution for one libre distro to get
enough users and developers to be the leader of free distros, bettering the
rest including the original.
I think 5 years ago there were no libre distros. Now we have 9 FSF approved.
In my opinion it is progress, even though it is a mess.
Maybe the next step could be that one emerges above the rest. Or maybe the
next step is that there will be three shining star libre distributions. The
latter being hugely optimistical thinking.
If after 5 years the situation is the same it is now, then one maybe could
argue that no progress has happened in 5 years.
GNU OS, in my opinion, should be released someday. Why it would not be, so to
say, today?
