On 4/12/06, Tim Starling <t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: It's funny... back when this came up before, it was suggested that someone make a free software simmlar tool, and I believe some work was begun in that direction. Will answers.com next sue the authors of this software? When we lay down with dogs we risk getting fleas. I too would rather see 'at arms length' advertising issued out to the highest bidder, rather than oddball favors for donations deals with potentially unethical orginizations which seems now to be the case with answers.com. But... As far as I'm concerned, the advertising/funding issue is orthorgnal... It is my understanding that If we put up advertising our 'secondary income' will be so great that it will break out tax status... I'm not particularly pleased with the way things went with the mozilla foundation. I'd been convinced that the answers.com deal was okay, until this patent issue came around... and honestly I'd though that it had put a break on our plans since I hadn't heard anything for so long, I'm disappointed to see it go in right now.