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1. "Avoid total dependence on select vendors"- has there ever been a more p.c. way to say "Microsoft lock-in"? 2. Has anyone ever explored the effects that adopting FOSS has on the computer literacy of a population? Can a case be made that adopting FOSS, and having locals trained in its implementation, upkeep, and improvement, brings more intellectual growth to a nation than adopting commercial, closed-source software? We talk about TCO in the closed-source vs. OSS debates, but how about the educational value of OSS for creating computer literate populations? Or, are we still too early in the life cycle of OSS to make this determination?