reading the recent exchanges on Free Open Source Software, it strikes me that the time has come for a new version of the Thomas Hardy classic, The Mill on the FOSS. With the focus on a bunch of enslaved coders. Tag line: "The code may be free, but the coders aren't." Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________