> So how do you induce the incentives to create such open systems? Unfortunately, I have no idea. Obviously I can say "only buy systems that are open", but it'

> So how do you induce the incentives to create such open systems? Unfortunately, I have no idea. Obviously I can say "only buy systems that are open", but it'll take a lot of people to make a significant impact. Hopefully, when things die, we can say "I never had that problem with $vendor because their systems are open!"