Patrick, Have You Thought About a Kirkham?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Buzz

I agree that cold certainly be true, but wouldn't that have to be established (officially, at least) by the Kirkhams themselves? And if it indeed becomes established, then that status could be transferred along with ownership of the business, yes-no?

The "proprietary v. open source" analogy comes more from the software industry. Both proprietary and OS software can run beautifully and do everything you want. The problem arises when you need to customize (or need support) for your proprietary software and the authors of that software are no longer in business (for whatever reason). Thus, the advantage goes to open source.