[Dominic Harr]

Hehehe.

It amuses me to no end how poorly so many of my competitors misunderstand 'open source' work.

There are 2 issues here:

• The attitude that "making money is evil".

• The concept of doing 'open-source' work.

They are *not* the same, altho you can find a small number of people who belong to both groups, just like you can find a small number of conservatives who believe the earth is flat. But making a blanket statement equating the two betrays both ignorance and fear.

Open-source is hobbyist work. Work real programmers do for a hobby. They universally fall into two groups:

1. people with jobs who don't enjoy what they build, so they do open-source for the 'fun' of it.

2. Young, learning programmers who do it for the experience and for the fun of it.

The 'open-source is communism' crowd is road-kill, in my biz.

I encourage *all* my competitors to believe that!

[Bush2000]

I encourage *all* my competitors to believe that!

Why would men's room attendants care?

[Campion]

Eh, Dominic, you forgot the third group: laid-off programmers who want to keep their skillsets in good shape.

Been there, done that.