"My buddy Roblimo over at NewsForge hit the nail on the head in a recent column where he wrote, 'While we're glad your client or employer chose an open source license, it's such a common decision these days that it's no longer newsworthy in and of itself.'
"Exactly. Open-source, as I've pointed out recently, has become widely accepted as the best way to write software. Indeed, before I sat down to write this, I read that AOL has opened up its code to its AIM client..."