A firm with a Monopoly has multiple, permanent advantages. That there is little/no interest in breaking it up is another story.

Seriously. Polish your interview skills and move on. No one is forcing you to be miserable. Life is too short.

Conflicting requirements that cannot be satisfied.

If staff cannot be bothered to learn Linux's routing interface, (not "Linux") then your default answer is to choose whatever routing interface they know already.

You are calling open source desktops out for things no one in the industry does.

To use a car example, it's like a car with high torque and excellent gas mileage, but ugly to look at and the instruments are labelled differently and in the back seat.
You've never owned a 70's era American car, have you? The funny thing is, some people Loooove those 70's cars.

Where are the open source tech writers? The ones who take that part of the problem and work alongside the engineers to ensure quality documentation?
Under the "help" menu option? If you have geek cred, man FTW!

Where are the open source ergonomic experts,
Are you kidding me? They are working for Microsoft or Apple. You know how Office looks nothing like the OS GUI? That's their hard work right there.

the usability analysts, the aesthetic artists?
Who? What? Is this the geek version of the old Hollywood line "I'm a director."

Who ever does usability studies, or consistency between apps?
When does this happen in the industry? Adobe doesn't talk to Apple or Microsoft when they are designing yet another loose menu. Microsoft's own Office dev team *clearly* does not talk to the OS people.

For Linux to ever have a shot on the desktop, it would have to stop being Linux. Namely it would have to get some standards beyond the kernel.

Bwahahaha!! You mean, like Microsoft and Apple follow desktop standards? C'mon. See freedesktop for your desktop standards.

it is a rich experience that comprises, well, everything you find on a Windows or MacOS disc.
Oh, look at that, Debian releases desktop-specific disks. If I do nothing during install, I get a full-feature GNOME desktop. If I select options clearly presented, I can have KDE, XFCE, LXDE appear like magic when I reboot. I tell you it's MAGIC!!!!

And since when does microsoft release a full-featured set of applications with their minimal installed OS? Apple? A default Debian desktop install gets you a very good image editor, very good "office" suite, PDF ripping, audio and video playing desktop, great web browsers. Apple and Microsoft cannot make the same claim.

Along those lines it would have to do away with having source be something a user had any idea existed. No distributing programs as source, no recompiling the kernel to make something work, all binary all the time for users.

1999 called and they want you back when this claim was possibly valid...

Meanwhile, Firefox remains the red headed stepchild to Microsoft because money talks.

Yell and stomp your feet all you want, nothing will come of it.

The point of DRM is to make it sufficiently hard to violate copyright. That's all.

Breakable DRM is a balancing act between looking the other way while entertainment media is distributed as a kind of loss leader, and generating sufficient fear that the RIAA will litigate you for violating copyright.

They don't need to change, they know what you like and have copyright and intellectual property law on their side. Meanwhile your right to repurpose your content has been sodomized with set top boxes. And you like it that way.

Until you stop feeding the RIAA members your money, nothing is going to stop them.

They need time to draft the bill to make this pesky regulation a shadow of its current form. Don't worry, AT&T is helping!

Is Paul the good guy in this scenario? Nope. Not even close.