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I am not so sure who messed it all up. Reading Philip's comments it is all to clear that this is just his view of things. He definetely got himself screwed by not taking the contracts to the lawyers in the first place. Rather than talking about how stupid and naive this has been, he talk about the product all the time.... I have worked on a number of (web) projects doing technical management and like it or not, even though I loved ACS and the overall system there were very huge objections against ACS that you just couldn't come past. - Customers were not prepared to switch their web server - Customers were not prepared to switch their database - If they were, they were not prepared to lock in with so much PL/SQL - Programmers simply refused to do Tcl at all, let alone the primitive version that came with AOLServer, that were missing whole featuresets of Tcl 8 - Besides noone would trust products of such a little company, let alone open source (good things don't come for free...