> The great weakness of open source is the lack of firm central > control; you tend to descend into glitz and feeping creaturism. I disagree. Yes, OSS projects generally lack good central control (the Linux kernel being an exception, IMHO). However, they generally have less 'glitz and feeping creaturism'; because they're completely _end-user driven_. features are there because someone *wanted them* and spent the time to write them. if you don't want them, you generally don't have to compile them in. :) this means that if you really want to; you can take the patch that someone sent to the linux-kernel mailing list recently, which makes Linux a single-user OS; and apply it to your system. Or you can choose not to. :) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700