In the United States it is about making victims feel better, and about making money for the privatized prison industry.

FTFY

Interoperability, see the thread above. Everyone I do business with uses Windows.

On the off chance this isn't a troll... My employer uses a hosted Exchange 2010 provider. Evolution doesn't interoperate with it, and OWA is a joke. Everyone I do business with uses Microsoft Office, and although OpenOffice and LibreOffice often get document conversions correct, they have failed often enough that I find it's not worth the bother. Diagramming: Visio wins, hands down. I used to use dia, but finally saw the light.

I'm on Fedora 16 and yes, Gnome3 is a challenge. But the biggest problem I'm facing is interoperability with the Microsoft world. I have to bring up Windows in a VM just to do simple, everyday things like email and calendaring, WebEx conferencing, documentation and diagramming.

I'm a pretty technical user and have been using Linux as my primary desktop for over a decade. Lately, even I am having trouble seeing it as a viable alternative to windows.

Examples, please. Can you give us at least a few links to these in Red Hat's Bugzilla?

IPv6 is cool, I get it. But how many ISPs are offering it to their consumers? If I want to build a web presence, would I settle for only IPv6 address space? If not, how much would I pay to buy into the IPv4 space so I can reach all my potential customers?

I know this has been discussed before, but it really begs the question of how to preserve digital data for long periods of time. Stone tablets last for thousands of years; paper for hundreds (or more, if in climate-controlled storage). What have we got for (large amounts of) digital data?

Check out the ongoing hearings at Ryerson University in Toronto. http://torontohearings.org/

Tune into the live stream at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/thetorontohearings