I have been quite lucky with my work experiences thus far. From the very start I was an open-source nut.. without even knowing it.. I was started out using open source compilers on linux systems at my university, and as I learned more about the movement, I enjoyed myself, and went to a level where I actually frown on a job where I have to work with something else. Thus far my only employment opportunity that involved something other than Linux/Apache/ Perl/GNU Compilers was a crappy experience with a closed shop doing support work for their HP/UX servers... sucked quite severely. I was asked to use NT, but I ended up slipping a copy of VMWare pass the sign-off boys over in purchasing, and running linux with the permission of the head systems management guy, and was very happy there for a while, since I could just write all my stuff on my linux box, and run it from there, connecting to the remote machines to handle tasks as needed. This went fine until the plant manager found out I was using Linux to be "so damned productive", and he frowned on it.. I didn't care.. I kept using it until I resigned from my position there shortly thereafter (unrelated). It amazed me that the same guy that prasied my productivity as compared to the rest of the staff with similar positions to mine, frowned when he discovered the tools used for this productivity was <hick>that thar hacker crap</hick> -- god bless those microsoft PR guys.. :)