Tezro

Personally I bought Pragmata Pro once and I'm still delighted to use it as my favorite fixed-width font.

I like the M-x eshell function a lot, too. It supplies identical shell experience across every system which is capable to run emacs.

Decision making takes a long time in any bigger company. Changes often take month to years before implementation starts. I guess, the business effects of the US/worldwide internet spying will not be visible right now, but in a few months or years.

> But in the long term I think the trust can be restored, if majority of people can actually give a shit about these revelations.

The problem is, that right now US based cloud services loose customers to other competitors which are not hampered by ridiculous US laws. Since cloud services are all about customer lock in, it does not matter if trust can be restored at a later time(which I personally doubt). They have lost the customer to a competitor - most likely forever.

What a coincidence! Today there was a retweet in my twitter stream of a essay from American Scientist. The title is "The Science of Scientific Writing". While not everything may be appropriate to blog postings, nevertheless it contains some timeless hints. Here is the URL:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.877,y.0,no.,conte...

I completely agree with this article. When you notice that your work has no real meaning to the company, it kills your motivation nearly instantly. I just stay because of the money and put my real efforts into some nice open source projects which actually matter.

Thanks for writing this fairly exhaustive walk through. No need to feel terrible.