SpikeSource and Intel and CMU are going to let users vote on the Business Readiness of open source applications, so people don't have to wonder if they're going to waste three months trying to use software that turns out not to be up to the job. Hopefully it will help open source get away from the image of what I heard called 'sticking it to the man' last week and get on with being a contributon culture where people scratch their own itch in a way that's useful to someone else too.

But will Business Readiness cover kittens?