And frankly, open-sourcing everything is not a closed question for us. We'd welcome the Open Source community's involvement in our own development. But we've got fourteen years of intellectual property and patent accumulation, plus legal and shareholder interests to protect. There are extremes on that side, too. The best we can do right now is answer the market and talk to everybody with an interest in making this work.
Freedom is an efficiency that drives value.
Doc Searls is the Senior Editor for Linux Journal .