> I'm referring to the customers where I've personally spent time > discussing tools issues. Obviously there are exceptions and > organizations where other motivations come in to play, or are so big > that they have sub-organizations which look at things from totally > different viewpoints. And (of course) I won't claim to have met every > organization of importance, far from it.
Have you had the experience of talking to large contractors like Boeing, Lockheed, Rockwell, or Raytheon about Free Software? That's yet ANOTHER experience (often involving lawyers who think they know what they're talking about but really don't).