Human development has many bad impacts over the world. Either concerning our environment or ourselves. As time flows, ice becomes water, water becomes black. Forests are ripped off, grounds are polluted.

There's always next year, right? If you're eager for the day of the Linux desktop to dawn, and you don't have the patience of a Cubs fan, here are some suggestions for community action that might be worth consideration.

Open Source development is pretty close to Anarchism. Still, we rely on the courts and government to protect Open Source. What if we were to lose that support, what would the Open Source ecosystem look like then?

New paradigms, such as cloud computing, are changing the desktop scene, CEO Jim Whitehurst argues
Linux has achieved success on servers, but can it make a go of it on the desktop? Panelists at a technical conference Tuesday evening debated the question, with a Red Hat official wondering whether the issue is even relevant anymore.

"...To reconfigure our culture wholesale changes have to happen [...]If not opportunism and greed: then cooperate and share!

"Any organization reaching a major anniversary would be proud of this fact, with press releases, interviews and celebration. The IFPI hasn’t said anything about reaching its 75th birthday. Instead, one of their staff has edited their Wikipedia page to keep their roots a secret. So what exactly do they want to hide? ..."

[...]He arrived at his destination. He started formatting himself (he couldn’t be discovered. It was the first and the most important rule: his code must remain secret, always. No exceptions). When he had almost being converted to NULL positions, he managed to finish with his pain, finally. Nobody will never be able to programme him again, he didn’t worth it.

"Our current political economy is based on a fundamental mistake. It is based on the assumption that natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for potentially abundant cultural resources.