> The fact that I named five such distributions is a canary of its own That can be said for programming language implementations. Or programming languages as a

> The fact that I named five such distributions is a canary of its own That can be said for programming language implementations. Or programming languages as a concept, too. Or configuration formats. Or even arbitrary products or libraries that overlap and handle the same domain. Another comment mentioned Linux distributions. My points is: what is your point? The whole industry is like this (for better or worse). Picking something you don't like and slapping "it has more than one implementation" is hardly an argumentative against it (or any of the other implementations).