FUD dissipation is a necessity. What are the conditions that allow an administrator to apply this Open SOurce stuff?
They would like to know it is in use in lots of places with good results... some progress on promulgating those lists, but more needed. They would like to know that there is reliable support reliably available HP Linuxcare etc - worth building reosurces on that, maybe even proptotyping a hub system where purchasers and providers of support to open source OS and applications could trade. They would like to know there is a difference between "roll your own" software by one person and the widespread reuse of components from OS upward by large numbers of developers and users, and that this is going to persists depsite commercial attacks. More work required. They may then consider the philosophical high ground, but not until they have their fears and needs assuaged - like Maslow's hierarchy of needs. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.swis.net/midgley/
