Probably not installed by default on most OSes, but it should be! First thing I install on a new machine myself.

I (as student) once argued with our university IT staff that this was essential software for any self-respecting computer science lab, and they agreed and installed it on all machines. :)

Unless the wifi network is at a Starbucks, a university or a corporation.

That creepy guy sitting two tables from you at the coffee shop? He can now read your e-mail.

Here is one: Leslie Hawthorn. She organizes Google's Summer Of Code, which has brought thousands of students (myself included) in an active role of participating in various open source projects. It's an absurdly hard task to coordinate thousands of students and mentors each year, to make sure all information, payments, shirts, ... are sent out in time, to organize the mentor summit, and meanwhile try to solve all problems that come up underway. She does it extremely well and I think the open source community can't thank her enough. I honestly don't think there's much more you could do to influence open source.

Go Leslie!

And let us not forget this lovely bit from the interview.

Cue "this is why we don't have women around" debate in 3.. 2.. 1...

I like this. Why not? It can be expected that web browsers use decent security practices, 3D drivers are already doing a fairly good job of providing a stable API via OpenGL, and everything is floating towards web browsers as new deployment platform, also for games and 3D applications. Better have an open 3D standard than a need of all sorts of plugins where everyone comes up with his own half-working solution. This is the indie game developer's wet dream coming true.

Of course, that's the best scenario. How it plays out in practice, we will have to see.

I do the same, but just with mathematicians. I currently have Euler, Erdos and Lebesgue (which was an upgrade from Riemann :).