Open soure has it place. As far as tools like this, one only has to talk to the Ace Updater guy to see what kind of hell open source can put you in. People didn't like he was trying to help Ace pay for bandwidth with some unobtrusive ads (the software was free) so they immediately took all his hard work, ripped out the ads and put up a different version. It was quite a mess - so now the program is dead in the water and no longer being maintained. The ad rippers apparently couldn't be bother to update the software after they ran off the original author. Thanks 8)

That's probably the main issue I have with open source - I code for a living and honestly I have no issue handing source code to anyone that asks for it - I firmly believe anything can be written by anybody - no one's code is that great - but there's no way I'm saying 'here, take it, recompile it and give it away'. The idea that other people are gonna sweep your code is pretty silly anyway. Anyone with the skill to actually to find bugs is most likely too busy with their own software project to just randomly scan your code for bugs - or look for security holes - I've never bought into that and find it amusing when people suggest that's going to happen. There are very few coders that WANT to walk someone elses code when they are being PAID for it, much less for free.

I know I have more clients than I can handle and barely have time to game.

EK