Being Debian does not mean it had apps.
Phone apps UI is far different from a FOSS desktop app UI.

"Meanwhile those of us that have been around Slashdot since 2000 have pretty much thrown our hands up."
Imagine how I feel.
I have to agree with you. I really want a new old slashdot but I doubt that the changes I would make would make everyone happy.

I have to admit that I am beginning to wonder if we as a society are mature enough for the internet.
The amount of pure stupid, rude, and or cruel on the internet is overwhelming at times.
Just look at the comments on CNN sometime it makes Slashdot look like a bastion of sanity.

Wow talk about self righteousness.

Here it is in a nutshell.

1. A lot of the Internet and a lot of other services depend on OpenSSH for security. This includes Microsoft.
2. OpenBSD the developer of OpenSSH is short of funds to pay developers to work on OpenSSH.
3. Microsoft gives a big "to OpenBSD community but small to Microsoft" pile of cash to OpenBSD.
Result
OpenBSD can pay the developers to work on OpenSSH, Microsoft gets a better OpenSSH, everyone else gets a better OpenSSH, and Microsoft gets good PR.
This is great outcome and I see no need to quibble about who did more.
It is in fact a win win for everyone.

I think they only sold about 100k of them. In the phone market that is just a drop in the bucket.

I agree that Nokia might have had a real winner with the N900 if they could have gotten the devs and apps. I would have probably gotten one when I moved to T-Mobile if it supported the right bands.
The nokia windows phones was/is a good phone. The OS is a good OS. The lack of apps kills it. For me it was the lack of Google Apps which I use a lot and really like.

While I really liked the idea of a Linux phone from Nokia I have to wonder if those sales where just the faithful.
Honestly I think Nokia's problems where a lack of urgency more than anything else. Symbian was dieing fast because it like PalmOS was was designed for low power and memory constrained hardware. Nokia made brilliant stuff but just could not seem to get it out the door. QT plus what every Nokia called their phone version of Linux that week could have been great. Nokia could have also pushed out a tablet that competed with the iPad in short order. It just seemed like the pipeline at Nokia from the lab to the customer was just too long.

No it is in another room but they added a portable AC to our location because of the poor balance of the AC. At first they put the thermostat in the lab but the server room got too hot so they put in to the server room and we froze. Now they restricted our duct it is summer now and it gets too hot unless we use the portable AC unit. It is not terrible now that we have the system kind of worked out. They are waiting until winter to make the final mods since no one wants to turn off the AC in Florida in the summer. Actually I work with a lot of departments so I am often running over to the lab, RnD, Hardware, and other locations during the day so I usually get at least 4000 steps in at work.

"Health wise - no arguments (guessed - not the result of rigorous studies). Productivity is the main thing."
I totally agree. As far as a walk here the issue is that is freaking hot! I live in South Florida so we are talking 32.2 c and 80% humidity. Now in winter it is nice.
I still like my drink at my desk. Keyboards are cheap.

I agree with the outside area we have covered walks around the outside and a koi pond in the center courtyard. I try to take a short walk once a day.
The no drinking or eating? Okay with the no eating but no drinking is not cool. I like my cup of Mate handy while I work. Yes a walk can be a big help.

Yes but they still suck.
Low contrast displays suck. Grey on Grey? Really?
A UI should be easy to use first and look good second. Ello is a good example of the reverse. We should think of older folks as canaries in the coal mine. They are more sensitive to bad UI design than someone like me. Heck I use Vi, I think Windows 7, KDE, GNOME, Unity, and OS/X are all easy to use so I am not a good test subject for UIs but all the things they mentioned are things that tick me off.
The other thing young people have to remember is that someone that is 70 may only have 5 to 30 good years left. A 20 year old has 60 to 80 good years left. Learning the latest cool thing may not be worth the time for them.

Sorry I replied to myself in error.
I have seen some drafting stools that are really just tall desk chairs.
For example this one
http://www.lexmod.com/p-15349-....
I wish I had bought one of the old 1960s style drafting desks from my high school when they replaced them.
Solid Ash and with a built in light fixture.

They actually make some drafting stools that are really just tall office chairs.
Here is the first one I found http://www.lexmod.com/p-15349-...
I am sure that you can find a lot more.

I think that the adjustable standing desks are on over complicated solution to the problem.
Use fixed standing desk with a drafting stool.

Wow that makes you sound like a reasonable person and not a crack pot at all. Your eloquent and logical arguments have convinced me.

US government offering loans to US companies to help the US economy.
The US is a single nation the EU is not.