>> If open-source software really slows technology innovations, why they're >> refered to as "highly capable software", and why would RedHat, Conectiva and >> Mandrake spend time and efforts improving Linux? > These questions here you raise are hypothetical > and reductio ad absurdum. Reductio ad absurdum is entirely legitimate when the original proposition is absurd :-) RM -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.