Use it, or don't. If you don't, stop bitching about it. There's no mob mentality here. We tried it, we liked it. You haven't tried it, yet for some reason you think that qualifies you to pontificate.
And co-opting someone else's work (GNU/Linux) is the worst.Co-opting what? WTF are you talking about? How is Debian co-opting anything more than RedHat or SuSE are? Debian is the DISTRIBUTION. The only thing different is 1) the form of the package files and 2) how they are managed. RedHat has exactly the same stuff in it, except you are paying for... nothing. A CD. RPM is open source. You're talking out of your ass and you can't admit it.