One project seeking to fix this (by re-implementing everything from scratch) is http://www.loper-os.org/ http://www.loper-os.org/ Much as I like the idea, I do

One project seeking to fix this (by re-implementing everything from scratch) is http://www.loper-os.org/ http://www.loper-os.org/ Much as I like the idea, I don't have high hopes. The revolutionary "right thing" approach has typically lost to the evolutionary "worse is better" in software fields with broad appeal. This is true even with the tools and materials used to build computing systems at a low level. Consider the popularity of programming languages like C++ compared to say... Smalltalk.