Peter, Michael, your responses were immensely helpful. Thank you. When I called, voice mail picked up, and I did leave a voice message combining Peter's structure and points with Michael's solid content. Whether the reporter Guth phones me back, indeed whether we get any response at all, remains to be seen; but the people over at the WSJ are some of the smartest reporters found anywhere in the world (as far as reporters go), so we'll give them a fair chance. Lacking time and wanting to get the earlier message out quickly, I transcribed only part of the article earlier. Here is the rest of it, if it is wanted. [...] SourceLabs is one of several start-ups trying to position itself as a one-stop shop for businesses that want to use open-source software. It plans to certify that various forms of open-source software work wll together and meet corporate computing requirements. The company was founded last year by executives and managers from Microsoft and BEA Systems Inc. Its main financial backing came from Ignition Partners, a venture-capital group whose co-founders include Brad Silverberg, a former Microsoft senior vice president who led development of the Windows operating system, the leading competitor to Linux. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, t@b-tk.org, thb@debian.org
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