I would like to say thanks to all the people who go the lengths to make sure older hardware is supported such as mepix debian, slackware, arch, puppy, dsl and etc just to name a few. I would also like to the people who make third party firmware to make good things great. Splash, DD-WRT, Tomato, the firmware so I can use analog phone to digital interfaces (so you are not lock into some provider so I can use freepbx instead) and etc. I would like to say thinks to all the programmers that make new hardware work also even thought they may not always ahve the secrets about the hardware from the manufacturers. I would like to say thanks to microsoft for not making software for older machines so I could be introduced to linux.