The ending to the article is touching. In light of that what I am about to say is going to sound all the more heartless and I expect to get downvoted for it but I think that it has to be said:
If you really want to get things done, consider not having children (yet).
In my experience this applies to both men and women in demanding technical fields. You may argue that having children is worth it in spite of what it may do to your career but that's a different argument.
Just FYI: the text of the parent's post is taken verbatim from a comment RMS once made but this text is probably best known as the most popular "copypasta" (reposted text) on 4chan's technology board (called "/g/" from the Japanese word for "technology"). You shouldn't reply to the poster in earnest.
Interestingly enough, /g/ is obsessed with RMS and the regulars' attitude towards him is the epitome of a love-hate relationship. The sheer number of images they've produced featuring him is quite impressive.
On a related note, this is one of the reasons I prefer to use, and make, Apache 2.0-licensed software. Its terms are similar to those of BSD and MIT but it also includes a patent licensing clause.
>I want to stick said birth certificate into my purse and go to Arizona, and start pissing in the men's room everywhere I go.
If you found a few more dumb gender laws like this to exploit and went around obeying their letter it could make for good material for a documentary (might not be the best example but think Religulous).
>It 7zips the files and handles splitting and merging of large files?
Yes. It also handles the uploading and the downloading.
>Try apt-cache search libgd and you'll find the (single!) dependency is already packaged
If you actually try to compile and run s2png you'll see that it segfaults when you compile it in Ubuntu 12.10 (so also in Linux Mint 14) and 12.04, probably because it was written with libgd1 in mind. I had a few people try it and it only compiled to a usable binary in Fedora.
A diff that compares the old leaked source to the "new" one: http://pastebin.com/KkeLzb6q.