Fragmentation and Linux + Android + OSS problem

People who know me know that for many, many, many years now I have been a linux and OSS zealot. 

Unfortunately, my support for this model is starting to waver in the business arena.  Linux is now starting to suffer from the "me too" syndrome that Android is suffering from.  The openness of the platform is allowing too many forks and too many projects to otherwise obfuscate products that deserve more spotlight, notoriety, fanfare, and adoption. 

It is time for some of these distributions and really the the community in general to it's own internal "audit" and say "is this project really necessary" and "is that project really necessary?"

Just because someone can write a program/app/script that can output "Hello World" does not necessarily qualify them to write anything else that should be used in production, let alone adopted on a wide spread basis.

I guess in the end the pendulum has to swing back to where it started.  Microsoft's model may be "barbaric" but it is a cleaner implementation than "which leaf does I pick from which branch from which tree?" 

Really?