Jeff Atwood wrote this great article https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor/33889 that shows how far Android has fallen behind.

Is the army protecting us from this?

I.e. in the advent of a cyberwar will our army do anything to protect private infrastructure like the electricity supply or the banking system from harm?

Right now: No.

The book to read on this is "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It" by Richard A. Clarke. A great read and very scary.

Yes this is true, just as there is no scientific consensus for how to solve global poverty. Both issues are for politicians to solve. Science tells us there is a problem. It is up to our political system to decide which solutions to choose from.

I will take puppet to GUI tools any day. Having a DSL is far more satisfying than trying to navigate around GUIs.

Both to RedHat and Cannonical for actually trying to innovate in this space.

At least one of the projects will fail and there will be instability for those trying out the new solutions, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try. I love seeing this because whatever happens, it will make desktop Linux more fun!

Rather than Zimbra, I am more interested in the approach that the SoGo project is taking.

They use Thunderbird as the basic email client and then extend it using extra plugins. Very nice!

Also, SoGo does not modify the OSS components they use. AFAIK Zimbra has added patches to postfix and Cyrus that makes it hard to integrate it using normal distribution packages.

Some 6 months ago someone mentioned another project that merged Thunderbird and Firefox into a tabbed kind of email browser, but I cannot find the URL anymore. That is also a very interesting project.