>or the curse of having a major figure accelerate the demise of a product that should have evolved into an open standard. Well, they always had the option. It'

>or the curse of having a major figure accelerate the demise of a product that should have evolved into an open standard. Well, they always had the option. It's not like they were working on open-sourcing it. It's an Open standard like Windows API EXEs are, you get half-support from Wine, but no guarantees.