Contributing to FOSS Projects, a counterpoint

Earlier this week, another ???advocacy site??? (which I will not link here, as I don’t believe he advocates, nor does he deserve the traffic, for his shoddy ???journalism???) posited that volunteering to work on a smaller Linux distribution, such as Solyd or Cloverleaf or Crunchbang, or any other smaller distribution, was akin to pissing in the wind, and possibly career suicide. Ignoring the falsehoods he spread about my own project of choice (Cloverleaf Linux), as I don’t believe they deserve a response, since they would fall on deaf ears, I would like to offer a counterpoint to his postulate.