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This post is relevant to why this advice will not and should not be heeded: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/programming-is-hard...

In summary: "If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what."

Building runtimes (and a web browser is a runtime for web apps) is a core business function to Microsoft.

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This is an excellent point that I think is not mentioned enough in the open source world. This should especially ring true after the recent top link on Why The Lucky Stiff and his "digital suicide". If something is that important to your business, you'd be a fool not to hold on to it, and how are you going to do that if you don't own it yourself?

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