``Not paying the piper. Piper is "a system for managing multi-protocol connections between Internet-distributed objects." It's based on a number of GNOME components (Loci, GMS, and Overflow), and is seen as an open source answer to Microsoft's ".NET". The project is in its early stages, but has gotten far enough to have a screenshot up. ``They are, of course, looking for people who want to help. For more information, see the Piper web page and this GNOME News writeup.'' http://lwn.net/2000/0928/devel.php3 Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. --