Howie wrote:

>This is a good example of why open source development is so important,

>especially for a small volunteer organization.

While I generally agree that there is a strong argument for open source development, it is important to realize that it has limitations.   I am particularly grumpy about those limits today since I am involved in a particular project where all the open source goodness of GNU and Ubuntu was unable to provide well motivated engineers with working tools to properly migrate user preferences in what should have been a simple upgrade.

de KM1P Joe