Mozilla to develop a stand-alone operating system

Email, IRC, forums, IM, and the various other "greybeard nerd" Internet communication facilities have never helped me find and connect to an old friend from school I hadn't seen in 12 years and then become good friends again, but Facebook certainly has. Those old systems don't help me organize an outing to the bar with three different sets of friends (and thus lead to them all meeting each other and making new friends), but Facebook certainly does. Those old systems have never hooked me up with an old flame or a new classmate and gotten me in a happy relationship (read: got me laid), but Facebook certainly has.

Those "silly fads" are the very definition of technology working to make life better. But the crusty old Linux/UNIX nerds oh so often fall into the trap of being enslaved by their computer, thinking it's the humans job to spend countless hours fiddling with kernels and configs and code and other broken crap to make the computer run better, when the computer is supposed to be working hard to make your life better.