Where the DoJ failed, open-source and security issues look set to prevail - at least in part. Office will not be the last Microsoft application opened up for governments. At the height of the Department of Justice antitrust case against Microsoft, one of the proposed remedies was that Microsoft should provide access to its source code. Microsoft, naturally, argued with great vehemence against such a remedy. But what the DoJ failed to achieve in a single mighty blow, the combined forces of open source and security seem to be achieving by a gradual process of erosion.
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