I like your analysis! I was plannig on getting rich by working hard. Now I will start downloading music via P2P channels instead. So, how many CDs worth of music do I have to download in order to become a millionaire? (I am starting with no money at all.)

Those Microsoft researchers must be living in the Middle Ages. They still use LaTeX for typesetting when we have the excellent Microsoft Word with ribbons and everything?

3.0 is a good release for end-users, and it would be a good release even without the eye-catching additions. For developers and theme makers it is even better, because it makes their jobs easier. It continues to improve under the hood. And it still has areas where there is much room for improvement. (A part I do not particularly enjoy is its cluttered interface, but at least you can customize and unclutter it.)

I published a detailed write-up on what WordPress 3.0 brings for end-users and for developers:

http://op111.net/76 -- WordPress 3.0: What is new

Hope you find it useful!

Go to Options > Advanced, and click the Config Editor button.

Type hide in the Filter box to find the mail.tabs.autoHide preference.

Double-click on mail.tabs.autoHide to toggle the preference.

Cheers!

Your freedom too can be taken from you if you break the law. And freedom is far more important than the internet for things that are essential to humans. So, according to Cory Doctorow's logic, we should also stop jailing people who break the law because freedom is so important. What kind of argument is that?

Of course, it's a bit disturbing that the head of a major law enforcement agency can be scammed that easily.

I would put it a bit differently: It's a bit disturbing that a person that can be scammed so easily is the head of a major law enforcement agency.

I don't think Linux can succeed on the desktop as we know it today. There are several reasons I think that.

One of the main obstacles, at least to my personal enjoyment of Linux, is X. X has its virtues but seems to me to be problematic for the desktop systems we use today.

Then there is the quality of desktop applications, which is simply a matter of numbers: There are too few people developing and testing on Linux compared to those who develop and test on Windows. This can be seen particularly well in cross-platform applications. Firefox is a telling case: Compare Firefox for Windows with Firefox for Linux. (An exception to this is cross-platform GTK apps, but it would be strange if GTK apps worked better on Windows.)

And then there is sound. I feel that I have to become an ALSA programmer in order to achieve on Linux anything even a little out of the ordinary, like, for example, getting two sound cards to work in parallel: one for my music player and one for everything else. On Windows I simply go to the program options and select a soundcard.

I don't see Shuttleworth mentioning any of the above, but most probably he knows better than me. :-) Or, maybe, he has invested too much and cannot give up so easily.