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Remember South Africa, and investment products that swore they avoided it; ethical investment trusts that don't invest in weapon-making companies; non-tobacco etc? Eat organic food? Drink Fair Trade coffee? How does a product which invests in companies who predominantly _use_ open source software in preference to closed source software in order to carry out whatever their ordinary production/distribution/profit-making activities sound? This would be very very distinct from investing in eg Red Hat or whatever - companies producing OSS - and the arguably spin-like suggestion that such companies constituted a good investment since their IT was cheaper an more reliable, relative to their main mission[1] would not actually be the main draw, although it might get aired... the USP is ethical. (This is not an offer, IANAIB (although I did meet some...) this is an idea being put out as a feeler, because I was wondering what to pick as an ISA ...) [1] Enhancing shareholder value, of course. -- A -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html