it's fair to say no-one in the entire Western World knows less about computers than me but I see this "Open Source" stuff is quite interesting, and certainly in some ways reminds me off some of the situations facing Musicians who record their tunes and hope to sell said releases.

The Christchurch Press has run a few articles around certain legal proceedings in the USA and hopefully the link I put into this www.firstmonday.com site works.

fingers crossed, but you should check it out anyway.