Hi All, These links to an up coming discussion at SIGGRAPH2005 on open source graphics software may be of interest... Slashdot article: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/28/1629226 Siggraph: http://www.siggraph.org/s2005/main.php?f=conference&p=panels&s=open Goodwin