Standardize (Score 1)

Why don't we have a standard (maybe like the LSB but better) with distros that follow it? Perhaps it could be modeled after a popular distro such as Ubuntu? Other disros would be free to deviate, but major software manufacturers (Adobe, Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) would only be expected to produce software for the standards. If a distro didn't follow the standards it would be up to the maintainers to make it work if they wanted the software.