And while I'm at it, I'll just throw this in the fire also: I think the only people who have a *true* opinion in the open source argument are the developers. Be it Fractint, Linux, OpenOffice, whatever... The developers look truly at the benefits of open source. Most end users who support open source don't really understand the philosophy behind it, and are the same people who will use the software just because it's free. Think about it - Do the clear majority of people you know, who use open source stuff even understand the source code? Much less, have they ever contributed to the source? or customized it themselves for their own use? Or, do they just use the free, compiled & running software that comes with the source? Do most of these users, who are the 90% majority, even care if the source even comes with the program? I don't know if Fractint distributors keep download statistics, but I know for certain that Red Hat's download for Linux source is about 4% or the download for the actual 'free' operating system. To most users open source=free programs and that is all they care about.