Hi

Ill be honest with you this has been on my mind now for a few weeks, in the uk the goverment has just signed a huge deal to implement open source into all new goverment buidlings, our friends at Sun bought at the right time we all know that, there is a growing call for opensource processors, bluetooth and USB interfaces, i think over the next 5 years we will see a huge shift in the corp sector to OpenSource systems, anyway enough background we all know this, Im very much of the captialist way of thinking and cant help but think that were ever there is a free or cheaper alternative for many there is huge profit for a few !! i just posted this to pick a few brains see what you all are thinking. even (dare i say these words on this forum) bill gates himself said "want you get and what you pay for will be the biggest factor of the software industry over the next few years, open source has leaped from the underworld" WSJ NOV2001