Is this really the news? MS *says* they are going Open Source, or the US Government says that they have to?

Quick note: Star Office is *not* Open Source, and neither is koffice.

I will believe it when I see it, they have weaseled out of similar litigation in the past, and I see no reason why they would not this time. They have all of the non-geeks by the balls. A world full of people that don't know anything about computers outside of `start' -> `programs' etc.

If any of their code was open source it would sure as hell be more secure if they allowed independednt programmers to fix that buggy **** and give it back to them. Might be able to get a security fix out of them before it is a world wide epidemic with a million script kiddies exploiting it on an almost daily basis.

But like I said, I don't see it happening.