I know Tim will kill me for this OT stuff:-)
> > I feel the likely hood of the economy changing and causing > major issues > for "big companies" is way more likely than the open source > community to > stop supporting and developing. It's not that the open source community doesn't support, it's that it's an unstructured/unguranteed support structure. Do you guarantee me that if my Linux kernel came crashing in some specific environment that can't be easily debugged on a home computer, that Linus and the team will come running to the rescue? Within 4 hours? I doubt it, Linus might be spending time with his wife and the rest of the team might be on a geek cruise:-) I'm serious, and I used to think the same way as you, until we sold a few open source products and ran into huge support issues, that were raised before, but we convinced them otherwise. We actualy lost a few clients that way. > > To me all the "enterprise level" nonsense is just a bunch of > big words Most are, but support and some other legal arrangements are very valid issues.
