Excelent. Like the anti-science. Standing on the toes of giants.
Instead of progressing technology, everyone spends time doing the same thing over and over again out of fear of looking like a newbie.

Which is I guess an reasonable description of how linux appears from the outside.

However, regardless to 'ego linux' distributions, it would be nice to have some sort of distribution that was good for normal people so they don't have to keep funding microsofts desire to copyright everything in computer technology. I suppose that is where ubuntus market is and it has made very impressive progress so far, to the point that there is a linux that is close to something those normal people can use.