An opening for open source?

[Michael O'Donnell]

> Negativity rarely helps progress.  It costs
> nothing but time to go to these kinds of things and
> dismissing them out of hand is ridiculous.


Right, and stressing the positive might
be as easy as standing up, asserting
that there's a low-cost way to avoid the
Microsoft trap, and then inviting all
interested parties to have a peek at the
laptop you happen to have with you, so they
can see for themselves that the learning
curve could be fairly shallow...