Right now, I see 35 responses for Non-networked, HURD. I don't think 35 people in the world have ever successfully installed HURD, let alone installed it, then wanted to share that ignoble fact in a survey vote.

How many businesses have you started that have realized more than $1000 of revenue?

It's pretty easy to start a business: just get a blog, slap some adsense on there, and you're in business. It's a lot harder to build something non-trivial, and even that point I mentioned above of $1000 revenue is pretty dang trivial.

Well, that is definitely a step in the right direction. What processes are in place to ensure that people are actually doing the work well? That's a big problem with Mechanical Turk.

They used to have such a wonderful culture there. I would think that a large part of their problems is the fact this is no longer existent. I found this great quote from Bill Hewlett on HP's site:

"We knew what technology was available," Bill said, "and we figured out how little bits of it would fit within the area where we wanted to be. There was not one giant step that we took at any point; there were a lot of little steps. Pretty much we just stuck to our knitting. I think we were concerned about making a technical contribution and we operated on the assumption that if we made a contribution to society, rewards would follow."

Can you imagine any exec at HP saying something along those lines today?

Hmm, maybe so. I wonder if some of the newer Python implementations like PyPy or Jython would make that simpler. I know that one of PyPy's vaunted features is a webkit bridge, though that github repo is currently showing a 404.