...it would be that we would stop propagating the lie that DRM is for your benefit. I just saw this on Lulu's ebook page.

If I had a second wish, I might wish for world peace or something. Eliminating DRM comes first (it might even be a pre-requisite).

Yes. Yes they are.

I'm crap at packaging. My mind has never really grokked all the packaging things. Also, I make packages, and then they quickly get out of date as I continue to work on the upstream part, and so then there's this big hill to get over when I actually need to package it again.

Enter source package recipes. It's what Aaron Bentley and I have been working on for the past 6 months. Basically, take two bzr branches, put them together using a recipe, and make a source package (and eventually a binary package) out of them.

My first recipe got built into a binary package two days ago, but I just noticed it.

Now I want to package everything.

I plug my new gadgets in. They work out of the box.

I want to install and play with a new piece of software. I don't have to search the net for that software.

I want to write new code. I'm up and running pretty quickly.

I want to buy new music and put it on my music player. I can certainly do that.

I want to contribute back to my OS. Kind people help me do that.

I just wanted to take a minute and say thank you to everyone that works on Ubuntu, from helping new users to writing code to testing code and filing bugs. You make me forget about my OS enough to get my work done. Thank you.