kamper
Diamond Member
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
If everyone has changed it and modified it to not work according to a strict set of guidelines, it will be basically useless.
What do you think Microsoft would do if Sun opened java? Sun already had to sue them once to stop them from splintering it, but that was, of course, before .NET. I can still see ms trying to change it to work better on windows but making it incompatible with other VMs. All for the sake of vendor lock-in.