[nishnik]

Think of it as a game of monopoly. Microsoft got lucky and bought the pink and the orange street, got hotels over it. It was enjoying a good revenue. But then few people(the open source community - chiefly Linus) bought the brown street and the blue street, which aren't much costly. But it affected the monopoly of Microsoft. So, Microsoft is breaking the hotels now. But still has a lot of houses on its land. For Microsoft to loosen up, either we need some big projects coming up(a substitute for Microsoft) - consider this the green and the dark blue street. These projects, as their street names suggest, need to be heavily ambitious. Or we need a bad phase for Microsoft. What I want to say is, Microsoft won't be making Windows open source until it has Monopoly.