I went into a public library to quickly check the weather at a public terminal and what did I see on the desktop?  Openoffice.org and a couple of GPL applications.

At first I stopped thinking about the weather.  Could it be?  Is the local government possibly adopting, at even this peripheral level, "open source software"?!?

Maybe we won't all die a Roman death, unaware that we squandered all our resources until it was too late.

Maybe we do have some hope for a bright future...