That's why it's open-source, BSD license. They're speeding up the arms race for fast JavaScript implementations in other browsers; with the BSD license Microsof

That's why it's open-source, BSD license. They're speeding up the arms race for fast JavaScript implementations in other browsers; with the BSD license Microsoft could even conceivably just silently swap V8 for JScript in IE8/9 (hey, it's been done). Offline support is making its way into standards, and the more existing browsers have already implemented a feature, the easier it is to write that feature into the standard. Since Firefox, WebKit, Opera and W3C seem interested enough in taking down Flash, there's no single distribution channel Adobe can even take on directly.