08 November 2006

Could Adobe’s contribution to Mozilla force MS to take Internet Explorer open source?

"Just assuming Mozilla gets more contributions (both in code and intellectual property) from other Adobe-sized companies — contributions that aren't available to Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) because of its closed-source nature — how can IE possibly compete? Long term, where contributions are marginalizing commercial entries, the vendors behind those commercial entries may have no choice but to take them open source or taken them off the market."

Click on the link below for the full article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3895

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