I think there's something to be said about the benefits to diversity from having the BSDs in the ecosystem but in the linux distribution world there's basically

I think there's something to be said about the benefits to diversity from having the BSDs in the ecosystem but in the linux distribution world there's basically been a Cambrian explosion with incredible amounts of duplication. Ubuntu is not going to be the only thing people run but consolidation in itself is not bad as there's also been a lot of half cooked, abandoned and redundant projects around.