[canuck_conservative]

You make some good comments, especially regarding MS's parasitic aquisition of programmers. MS also has one other big advantage over the decentralised, open-source system: they can centrally direct and co-ordinate, in an organized way, the development of their system, while open-source depends on the individual's initiative.

That said, one would've predicted that open-source would NEVER have been able to compete - yet they have.

Don't give up yet.

[Common Tator]

in an organized way, the development of their system, while open-source depends on the individual's initiative.

That was a huge problem for me. I did some LINUX stuff. Another developer after final tests on my suff commented out some of my code to test his code that depended on mine in some manner. It created huge problem that got on 200,000 distribution CD's. Commercial organiztions would not allow that to happen.

That is when I said take your open source and shove it. I wouldn't put up with that for money... let alone for free.