If I post the recipe here then I'll have less chance of getting lots of nice people to come round for dinner :-)

*smile* there is more to dinner than just the food; the company is important as well.

When it comes down to it, there are several sides to a good meal and only one of them is how good the food is. There is also the surroundings and the company to take into account. Often the company you have the meal in is the most important of all so long as the food is edible :)

Since I've already made the analogy with open source, I'm amused to note that this is almost exactly the same form of argument that OSS zealots use when arguing that companies opening their source code need not be losing all hope of profit, because there's more to their service than just the software :-)

And this seems like a good point to thank Simon for a lovely dinner. The risotto was indeed excellent. Far better than any I've ever made.