If they open-sourced it, it would be difficult to standardize. With a major release every 12-18 months, it's already difficult to drive adoption (takes about 12

If they open-sourced it, it would be difficult to standardize. With a major release every 12-18 months, it's already difficult to drive adoption (takes about 12 months to get > 90% user base per version). I will agree - they might want to consider open sourcing the Linux version. I know nothing about Linux so I'm guessing it's related to trying to support the "anything-goes moving-target many-flavors-of Linux" issue. OSX is another matter (blocked OSX APIs).