Applications and bundled libraries

OK, so you're a programmer and you're soo special. Fine, so do I. But do you realize that that you run a UNIX like system on cheap PC hardware thanks to the MILLIONS of people that buy the same kind of hardware, don't you?

The same logic applies to software. If we hide in the proverbial Ivory Tower, the OS that so wonderfully works for us will languish and die.

The moral being, be little more humble my friend.