Exactly, if/when any of these open sourcers ever come up with anything decent, it gets forked into a hundred different slightly incompatible versions. No one actually controls the code, it's a free for all out there, as if using these obscure products wasn't difficult enough already.
I know, I guess at I'm guilty of supporting a forks myself... PcLinuxOS(Mandriva) AND SimplyMEPIS(Ubuntu/Debian)... although i think those forks have turned out better then the originals.