Here's my take on this issue, having developed one Android app and used many:
The real problem is developer education. There are LOTS of free (as in beer), or no cost, applications on the Android Market. Few of them, that I've found, are under a Free/Open Source license, if they even have a license at all. I'd guess that quite a few of those applications aren't intentionally kept closed, but are just written by developers who aren't used to the Open Source world, and aren't educated on why they should open their source (and I'm just thinking about the practical, have-someone-else-write-the-patch-for-you side of things). Google should be making more of an effort to educate developers, or at least point them in the right direction, about license choice.

My thoughts on what Google needs:
1) Add search functionality to the Market app to allow users to search both by price and by license.
2) ***IMPORTANT*** - there's currently a $25 listing fee on the Market. Drop it to $10 or $15 for apps with an open source license.
#2, while many will argue is not a good long-term business strategy, would at least boost app development by lowering the barrier for entry.

The HP T-series thin clients are quite nice. I have one in production driving a wall-mounted display. It's a t5000 series, specifically the t5735. It has DVI, VGA, parallel and serial, audio, USB, everything that a normal desktop has, AMD Sempron 2100+, 512MB RAM, 1 GB internal flash, and runs Debian Linux 4.0. By default, it has a stripped down Debian install, but has Gnome and gives you root access - I just added the packages that I needed and was ready to go (though it also has software for Citrix and RDP, etc. HP lists it for around $500, I got an open box demo, with full warranty, for $130.

Having spent 2 years as a sysadmin suckered into supporting 40+ printers at a major University (luckily I got out of printer support a year or two ago), here's my advice: 1) "personal" = 2 years lifespan. Get something that's marketed as a "workgroup" or better printer. The home models are not built to last. 2) Don't buy anything without a wired Ethernet port. 3) In terms of OS compatibility, anything that supports IPP (port 9100) should work fine. If it has LPR or CUPS drivers for Linux, Mac will support it fine, and pretty much everything has Windows support. Generally if the manufacturer supports Linux, they support everything. 4) My personal experience is that Xerox is the best, HP is a close second. I'd stay away from Kyocera, even their million-plus-page models break all the time. 5) A laser is a must. 6) A good test for features is whether or not the printer supports SNMP. If it has both a web interface and SNMP support, it's actually designed for a business environment, and will generally support all OSes and have good functionality. (Mind you, my personal printer at home is a 100-pound Xerox N4525. It does up to 11x17 borderless. I bought it as enterprise surplus with over 1,000,000 pages on it two years ago - for $20 - and I haven't even replaced the toner yet.)

1) passwords shouldn't appear in clear text on the command line. It's not BASH's problem... and program that doesn't have an argument to prompt for password is broken. 2) Realistically, while we should all work next to stenographers who take down every note that we mumble, we don't, I don't remember how many times I've asked myself "how the **** did I get that to work yesterday?" and found the answer in .bash_history.

I'm not going to voice my opinion on the vi/emacs war, but... the fact that people have voted for MS Word as a text editor is very scary... though it makes me feel more secure in my job...

Ahhh, generators, UPSs, and tigers, oh my! I work at a University that supports close to 100,000 students, faculty, and staff. We've got lots of systems. We've got lots of backup plans. We've got multiple redundant UPSs, multiple generators, and machines with multiple PSs, split between different circuits. I'm thoroughly convinced that the only way to have a truly redundant system is to have two mirrors --- on separate continents. Murphy's Law. If you have *any* single point of failure, it WILL fail. At the worst possible time. If you have two generators, UPSs, etc. the one day the generators kick on, there WILL be a fire in the wiring closet.