Why Microsoft should open-source Internet Explorer  Microsoft
has been reactionary toward open source for far too long. It's
time to open-source Internet Explorer and start giving its
competitors grief.   In the past week, the open-source business
community appears to have reached consensus: making money from
open-source software is a bad model, but making money with open
source is golden.  This can't be good for Microsoft.  Microsoft
has long maintained that as the open-source industry has
matured, it has become more and more like the commercial world
it sought to leave behind. Fundamental freedoms of open source,
like the right to modify source code, are signed away to secure
a support contract with Red Hat or another vendor.  In many
ways, Microsoft was right. Unfortunately for the Redmond giant,
however, the new consensus should lead to less commercialization
of open source, and more commercialization around open source.
There's a big difference, and it's one that threatens to
seriously undermine Microsof