On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Paul B wrote: > #0 is priceless. Freeware vs crapware vs malware vs shareware. Your > great debunker with this one is skype, which is free, but (ethical > issues of it's recent reverse engineering aside) it is clearly not > open source. > > Thumbs up to that. Freedom isn't free! > > #7 would be a curious myth, in that it's proponents include the open > source community itself. It's so easy to get caught navel gazing. > > How on earth do you even plan on rating these, Robert? So much of > it is pervasive, I'm having trouble imagining a metric that could > meaningfully be used to rank them. good question since it was a spur-of-the-moment request. i'll let you know what comes of it or if i can even restrict myself to 5 myths. rday