Well, "making the world a better place" is surely subjective. The taliban and the nazis want to make the world "better", too. And Terry Davis was a racist theocratist and had serious mental issues, so I think this is what lead to his sad ending, not that he choose the public domain for templeOS. And I think my ideals are more align to what is commonly accepted as "good".

And more details about my project I will share, once it is released. I just have to make up my mind about the licence and do a screencast.