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I thought about the green card lottery as well, and I will probably participate, but it's nothing one can count on :)

And yes, although the US have many flaws, I'd like to live and work there for some time (probably not forever) :) Coming back is easy and can be done at any time, while getting there is hard part..

Thanks for the explanation :) I know it's not easy to get in directly, but still I'd like to at least try! Unfortunately OPT is not an option for me, as I moved back to Italy to finish my classwork here and to work on the thesis from here (I now regret this, but at the time it seemed the right decision to finish both degrees in as little time as possible) and thus I don't have that option. Doing the interviews in January is more or less what I pictured would be the right time, so I was thinking of applying at the beginning of December. :) Thanks! :)

I am an elementary OS user and I'm a cheater. Well, kind of..I installed Freya when it started being developed and am following it's development. To those people who say that it's just a "skin" on top of Ubuntu, and that they shouldn't take let people pay for the work of others I say: then Ubuntu shouldn't take donations for the work of Debian. Then Debian shouldn't take donations for the work of the kernel developers. Then no-one should take money from anyone, unless he's developing a single library that's not dependent on anything. Also, if eOS is only a skin for Ubuntu, then Ubuntu is just a skin for Debian, with its fancy Unity and other visual stuff..right? Nah. If you cared to try, you would have seen why people like it. Because it's polished. Because it's lightweight. Because there's care in the details. Basically, everything that's missing from other DEs.

The wording in the post sure is wrong, but hey, they're not PR people and it's easy to upset people on the internet. I don't feel like a cheater, but I feel a bit guilty to not have donated to a project I use and like (even though I submit bugs and stuff), and I think that is the feeling they wanted to give users that don't donate. People should be aware that if you don't have some guy with a load of money that pays for development, or some other kind of business that sustains your product, you're dependent on donations to keep the project growing. Also, if you're not helping in any way (bugs, patches, desing,..), a donation rewards someone else's work on important stuff (also upstream projects!)