Comments on: Yahoo to make BrowserPlus open-source

Trying to be more open and to encourage innovation, the company will release source code behind its project to make Web browsers more powerful computing foundations.

[jamesk111]

yahoo's a copy cat.

[montex66]

We've been hearing about how wonderful open-source software is for years, but where is the fruits of this movement? Linux is a mess with all the competing distributions and flavors. How could it be anything but chaos? Open source software doesn't have the benefit of a structured environment or deadlines to meet. Sure, good things pop up now and then, but to depend on open source as though it is superior to commercial offerings is just foolish.

[SJ2571]

Open source sucks. Made by hippies with no idea. Go on, take the bait! :)

[AppleSuxLeo]

If all open source were as good as VLC media player is , it would be wonderful. The newest VLC is just great.

[johnericanderson]

Put a million monkeys on a million keyboards, one of them will write Shakespear's Hamlet...maybe.

The rest of them will try to eat the keyboard, hit their neighbors, wear them as hats, or flat out break them.

Open source.
On the other hand, they do provide the pros with good ideas.