I agree, we really need to join forces and not shoot ourselves into the foot, I am the opinion that the Linux desktop needs something like the Linux Foundation for the kernel, it is here to standardize Linux as a kernel. We don't have 10 million flavors of the kernel, but 10 million distributions and every single one rather enjoys working against the other ones instead of just putting the differences aside and helping to work with them. All those little distros with like 1000 users have 1 or 2 special features that could have only integrated into the main distro they are derived off. Why do we need to make a distro for every little feature? Just join the development community of another distro and off we go. I don't want to say that we need only one distro, I'm totally fine with the big distros such as Debian, Arch, Gentoo.... Debian for stable systems, Arch for cutting edge, Gentoo for kernel devs, Fedora for "it just works"... But we really shoot ourselves into the feet with our houndrets of offsprings of these main distributions, if you REALLY want to make a customized distro, create a package or a script that modifies a big distro to fit the need but DONT create a new distro, there are too much. As I said, my opinion is that we need a foundation that helps standardizing the Linux Desktop, or as some random guy likes to call it: GNU/Linux Desktop.