>Remember the long gap between Netscape open-sourcing its browser and Mozilla becoming a usable platform. Not sure this is the best comparison. Netscape open s

>Remember the long gap between Netscape open-sourcing its browser and Mozilla becoming a usable platform. Not sure this is the best comparison. Netscape open sourced Communicator 4.0, yes, but what we know as Mozilla was a total rewrite after they decided to scrap 5.0. EDIT: Unless your point is that the Flash codebase may be similarly bloated. :)