> In five seconds since posting this I have thought of at least six projects omitted above. I think your misconstruing the point. Indeed most of the projects

> In five seconds since posting this I have thought of at least six projects omitted above. I think your misconstruing the point. Indeed most of the projects you listed can hardly be considered crucial or core technologies :) I think the main point here is if you take a core code base, say Lamson (seeing as Zed is the source of this whole debate :D) and built a popular enterprise mail server/client (say something like Kerio Mail Server) out of it. Is it not "good form" to perhaps put some obvious credit "built with the cool lamson". Or perhaps offer Zed a bit of cash to iron some bugs you found. Or farm back bug fixes into the Lamson source. 90% of companies probaboly wont bother - and they should, right? :) I also think you assuming the idea is distribute cash according ot some scheme or other. As I see it the point is that it would be "nice" if more companies considered it good form to show appreciation for the core technologies that make their businesses tick :) (in whatever form they can afford / deem appropriate).