On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:30 am, you wrote:
> Article about the pragmatic view of open source.  Not bad.
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/01/021001hnbizopen.xml?s=IDG
>NS
>
> Alan


I liked this comment:

Merrill Lynch is beginning to evaluate desktop set-ups based on open-source 
software, with the eventual hope of running 20 percent of its desktop using 
open-source products.

 "Our primary reason to do that is our sense that the desktop market is not a 
free, competitive market. Prices are higher than they need to be," 

Dennis Kibbe