I feel like history, and unfortunately mistakes, are repeating themselves. I love *nix'ed based OSes but the developers on those platforms are all self serving

I feel like history, and unfortunately mistakes, are repeating themselves. I love *nix'ed based OSes but the developers on those platforms are all self serving. This includes the developers that claim to make a version that is going to be "Truly Open/Free". These developers are coming in with pure intentions but once they hit roadblocks, their sentiment will change. With current Linux distros, you have 3 major roots: Debian, Slackware and Redhat. From those, 100's of children have spawned which fragments the community, creates factions, divides, conquers and creates this "crab in a bucket" mentality. Meanwhile Microsoft or Apple come along with one vision and just clean up the market. What I want to see, and what I think would work, is Google championing this effort in trying to make a truly free version of Android.