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With a collective market share of 1%, I find it hard to believe that the reason Linux distributions use incompatible package names is to get revenue from usage statistics.

Maybe we should use Hanlon's razor here: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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I suspect the razor needs an addition "or backwards compatibility". I suspect many of the names remain unchanged from when they were first added to each distro. There could also have been conflicts with similarly named packages at that time, so something pragmatic is chosen. 10 - 20 years later it looks like stupidity.

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