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.