well, actually I was already preparing to fire at him when I came to know he was from M$ for two things. firstly I never leave a chance to pull the legs of people supporting ms. and secondly I wanted a very easy and jolly way of telling my school staff how good and sociable gnu/linux is. so while sitting on the stage as one of the guest of honor I was thinking of the idea since this was not my first confrontation with microsoft guys. never the less he was asking me in the end what I think should ms do to get at power with gnu/linux. I told him it is very simple, release your source code. however Dr. Nagarjuna pointed out yesterday that I just told him the half truth. I should have told him, "just release the source code to the community and we will make windows virus free within no time". sorry, Dr. Nagarjuna, I will do it on my next such encounters with "naukars of bil gaits". Krishnakant.