[CS-FSLUG] What would happen if MS went FOSS

['Mash]

On 6/14/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> "Microsoft officials themselves also have been dropping hints about doing more
> open-source projects. In fact, Jason Matusow, the director of Microsoft's
> Shared Source program, has been using his Weblog recently to start trying to
> catalog the myriad Microsoft shared- and open-sourced projects that are below
> the radar."
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823267,00.asp
 

Morning, 

I was just wondering after reading this article what would happen if
MS decided that
following Windows Longhorn that the next realease of Windows would be
Opensource?
That MS was moving towards releasing all there new software as FOSS.

Would the company suddenly collapse, would the stock market be affected ?

Just a thought, how would it impact the IT world ?

'mash