I want to say, as William Stein and John Hammersley have said in other replies, that there are people working on making things better. If you are reading this

I want to say, as William Stein and John Hammersley have said in other replies, that there are people working on making things better. If you are reading this thinking that these things are big jobs and there is nothing you can do, think some more. Find something you are interested in, and pitch in. Sage, for example, is a great project that I'm sure any reader of this site could contribute to in some way. For another example, I'm VP of the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org http://www.tug.org. If you are looking for a project to work on, or just thinking to support the work of others on LuaTeX, or XeTeX, or LaTeX 3, or ConTeXt, etc. then come join us.