>If this is successful (and I hope it is), the world will have no choice but to follow. Why do you believe this is so? It's important to remember that many of

>If this is successful (and I hope it is), the world will have no choice but to follow. Why do you believe this is so? It's important to remember that many of the dominant enterprise software companies aren't there as the result of a secret conspiracy - it's because they're very good at listening to what their customers want and delivering it. Saying "we want this open" sounds nice, but the sticker shock of paying for development, maintenance, and hosting is the tip of the iceberg. The real problems and expenses are in support and training. Companies like Microsoft excel here - they have dedicated support teams to escalate to empowered to understand the problems of large customers and get them fixed. Paying an engineer to investigate why your USB badge reader doesn't work on Linux on Lenovo laptops on Thursdays is more expensive than a significant number of Windows licenses. Your comment could be pulled directly from Slashdot back when the German Government decided to try SUSE.