Dave McAllister, SGI's Director of Technical Strategy says, "The open-source community is a good imitator but not a good innovator. They don't build their own problems." And surprisingly, he's considered a Linux advocate. http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/software/19991123/A56903-1999Nov21.html I guess Loci has been an imitation all along. Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+