What is your favorite color daddy?

My eldest, very comfortable picking up the phone and calling my cell, said whats your favorite color daddy? This is an enormously weighted question. For those who dont have children, you are probably thinking "what is the big deal?". The choice you make here, is a choice that you will have to standup for, over time. Kids remember.

I am "reasonably" new to Open Source. I went from you gotta be a "whiz " [read geek sometimes] to use it "productively" to "there has to be an Open Source solution" for this problem. What is the connection here???
In the business world, you have to constantly make choices that you will have to standup for. More and more, the basis of these decisions are extremely transparent within the enterprise {gack!! I never thought I would use that word} The transparency and the security you get by choosing [commercial??] open source is incredible!! I will be the first one to tell you that I am probably graspping at the tip of an iceberg that I have not much clue about!! but I do know it exists and its very real!!!