I use the words "look at the big picture" quite often, and I think we should all take a step back here and perhaps like me, we should all see this as productive (rather than the odd negative comment i have seen).
What we are seeing now, are elements of the community forming "strategic" partnerships.
In the long term, i think this is a damn good thing, I don't see there being any point with random OS's being made competing with OSx.0, DE etc, this partnership only stands to help bring balance and stability in a pretty shaky envirnoment.