Mike Miller wrote: - - - snip - - - Telecommunications covers a whole range of software, and I tend to think of any software as participating at some level of telecommunications. It's an assumption I might have expressed at the beginning of my response. I thought your question about the relevance of my reference to social entrepreneurship was a good point. Suppose we lived in a world where social entrepreneurship was the norm. All businesses had a non-profit division. What then would we see with companies like Microsoft? Would their products look any different? Would we see more interoperability? Could Microsoft make a contribution to society through their non-profit work? And, would they still insist on a closed, proprietary approach to their business model? My guess is no. What's yours? Tom