Well said. I have been in the industry since the late 70's/ early 80's I ran one of the first 300/1200/2400 Baud BBS's (Cleveland IBBS to be specific) back when the only access to the internet was through CompuServe and it was ALL text based. I an several other coders at the time shared most of our code and ideas with eachother, and wound up standardizing the BBS industry (at the time) and got to benefit from the ideas and code of the others. We wrote all our code in 8080/Z80 assembler and a wonderful see more little basic interpreter from a guy named Bill Gates...Known as MicroSoft Basic.

For those of us who have been developing and installing software for years, we know that the success to open source software projects is the free access to code and the free exchange of ideas. There have definitely been times when I've been on Boonex that I wondered why everyone was talking about just anything...except what was important...the improving of the Dolphin code.

It's late and I ramble.... good post though :-)