I’m wondering if this is really the best thing for Debian. Humans prefer to be associated with, or be the winners/rock stars/#1 whatever in some small or large way. And Debian rightly holds big-time rock-star status in the Linux world.

Debian and Debian ONLY should be driving the innovation, maintaining the #1 “rock-star” status of the distro it so richly earned.

I don’t see Debian driving anything with this kind of arrangement. What I see is, “Thanks, we’ll take it from here.” from a bunch of distros that weren’t smart enough to do this a long time ago!

This move also monetizes the Debian project in a way as to make two distros. I think the focus would create pressure away from “doing it right” to the “quick and dirty” while making Debian (doing it right all along) the red-headed-step-child. (ex. Red Hat & Ubuntu)

If Debian’s not leading, then what’s it doing?

I hope my arguements are coherent enough for others to read, and I hope they read as constructive criticism as opposed to shouldn’t/couldn’t/wouldn’t.