I think open source and free software is important but I'm also pragmatic about it. A lot is just itch-scratchware that will never get maintained and that is OK. A good hint that a project is not very active is when the web site says this:

The site is under construction. The site is scheduled to be up by 31st October 2003.

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This is a bit off topic but for our subscribers in New Brunswick:

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IronPython is an implementation of Python that runs against the CLR, which is so cool.

Here's Jim Hugunin's announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/archive/2006/09/05/741605.aspx

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