What would become of Manjaro if Arch became unavailable at some point? By this I mean, in case the developers of Arch should at some point think that distributions based on Arch should no longer be able to enjoy their work. How would then look the future for Manjaro, would there be this at all?
And how exactly would this happen?
only if archlinux leaves open source …
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…and If Arch made their repository packages closed source I would expect some Arch maintainers might want to maintain open source packages on other distributions
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Move to Debian base?
Through arbitrariness and power games? I don’t know, it’s just a thought …
According to DistroWatch there are 22 distributions based on Arch. Arch even lists them in their wiki.
118 based on Debian, including Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
There are very few original Linux distributions.
They can’t make Arch closed source, all packages are open source so they can’t change their licence.
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Ask yourself - what would you do?
Life goes on - computers keep running …
question 
I ask myself why …?
nothing special - but a common connection to popcorn …
I apologize for any misunderstanding - of the few values such topic bears - one cannot understate the entertaining element 
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