Hi Tom! :-)

 TW> To each his Own. Btu it seems to me that thay is a slightly "Short
 TW> Sighted" view of thew Computer Wrold. Refuce to use a Very Good 
 TW> program just because it is NOT open Source.
It's my philosophy when it comes to computing. I want to know how stuff
works and sometimes I even want to modify stuff. That obviously requires to
have the source code available to me.

Closed source software is a secret kept at my expense (sort of). Open
source software is a contribution to the growing pool of mankind's
knowledge. Closed source is no such contribution.
  
 TW> Now I understand that position as it aplies ot MS junk.
One of the important reasons for me to use open source is that if a program
turns out to be junk, I can take a look at it and see why it is junk and if
I could improve it (and if it is an important enough program for me, I
would do so).

 TW> But with a Very Fine Program like Opera it is like "Cutting off your
 TW> Nose to Spite your Face"!!!
Yeah, Opera seemes nice, but I wouldn't trust it unless I could take a look
at the source code. Sure, it's highly unlikely that it contains stupid or
even mailicous code, but then again, you can't know for sure.

I think it is very good that open source browser such as Mozilla or
Firebird (or Konqueror or ...) exist. That way, the knowledge required to
build one is not locked property of some company that may or may not be
trustworthy. Hey, if it were to belong to a company, it would even be
possible that the knowledge got lost somehow...

Ciao
Pascal

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