Hi, On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:29:21PM +0200, Yves Glodt wrote: Of course there are. Sure, there's lot more FOSS stuff at the network / network services level, but there's FOSS on the desktop too. With a study several people from the CRP Henri Tudor did a few months ago within administrations for instance, we learned that some administrations have set upon Firefox and some on Thunderbird for web browsing and email, to replace certain less secure and less standard-oriented products. On the office front though, things look less promising, as those 0.1% (or whatever) of MS Office documents that can't be handled by, say, OpenOffice, are a real problem (think hundreds or thousands of documents posing problems in a real-world setup). As for having free operating systems on the desktop, well, we're not there yet, unfortunately. I know for the CRP Henri Tudor that our IT department is looking closely at OpenOffice. Now with the Mac situation looking better (think NeoOffice/J etc), chances are that this will be a real alternative very soon, for most users here. The User-Agent issue is often done so as to avoid problems with stupid/ridiculous dependencies built into badly-done webpages. Also, if those companies route their tcp 80 traffic through a proxy, the webserver will see only the proxy's settings anyway. Greetings, Eric