Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.