Working on FOSS or commercial, its good to know your value. On commercial, I have a dollar value on mine. RS

Sorry, economics and climate science suffer from not having repeatable experiments. Both are not science. Real provable science.

Me, I like windowmaker...does what you want and nothing more.

I went back to raw Debian. Most distos tell me rails 3 doesnt exist. debian says chrome & firefox doesnt exist
For me, they failed not having tcsh and rubygems.

we'd use a different protocol. is that concept so hard?

I've tried the web apps for both word and excel on google and the functionality seems lacking

Spreadsheets wrap in columns by default and there's no way to span columns. The word processor doesnt support any kind of labels templates or layouts I could see.

Maybe I hit the missing functions each time, but the apps do seem antiquated right now

google are fairly unique in having a single feature to polish over many years. Most of us in the dev world dont have the luxury of time to polish usecs from a call.