Comment by maze-le

Nope, I don't think so. I don't demand Microsoft to open up the Windows sources or sources for MS-Office for that matter. They make money with these products and I understand the incentive to keep them closed. Alas NTFS is a filesystem, not the kernel of the OS. If Microsoft would recognize that there are other operating systems than Windows, and that it is valid that they operate with NTFS partitions, NTFS would be open.

Oh and yes, .NET is open source by now, btw. I think it's great too. And I am far less critical of Microsoft than 7-8 years ago. But opening .NET is also a strategic descision. In essence, it remains a Microsoft platform, and if more software for linux is written with .NET, good for Microsoft. If more software for windows is developed on linux machines with .NET, good for Microsoft. If more linux devs switch to windows, because of the better .NET integration, great for Microsoft. It's a win-win situation either way.

I'd love to see a development, that might be a net-loss[0] for Microsoft but a net-win for systems interoperability or the open source community.

[0]: Opening NTFS might not even be a net-loss...