I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

C++ is a pile of crap.

Only failure makes us experts.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.