&gt; I wonder about this with open-source as well, since it&#x27;s often about scratching the itches of the demographic that participates in it.<p>This is why I believe open source will always be much better at creating compilers and programming editors than desktop environments and word processors.  There&#x27;s nothing wrong with this, but it kind of explains why the Year of the Linux Desktop has yet to arrive.  It&#x27;s a lot harder to solve other people&#x27;s problems than your own.