[RKDinOKC]

Back in the early 90's a friend of mine put together a system for the NOAA to collect, manage and do statistical analysis and graphic of all the atmospheric data they collect. It worked wonderfully but they got all pissed off and didn't like when they found he had used 2 off the shelf programs. Seems they wanted to just pay him for his time and once it worked make copies to run all over the world. With what he had set up they would have to buy two programs for each new installation. He said that if he had programed a custom system and found out they were planning to distribute it all over the world without paying he would have been really pissed so it served them right.