Last week at the office, it struck home how Free Software / Open Source is really winning the battle for the "hearts and minds" of developers.

My job, at the moment, is to help do the legwork for people doing the real work on buzzwordy, web- based technologies. So, I'm looking at web servers, XML and XSL software, CORBA, etc.

And every single developer that I work with has expressed the equivalent of "don't even bother me with some proprietary crap, I want the good 'open source' stuff."

So, my sample is no doubt biased because we're a Unix-centric shop, but still, it's interesting ...

GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them.
-- RMS, "The GNU Manifesto"