Great job putting all the pieces together.

Shortly after reading it though, something else occurred to me: "Shared Source" or whatever you call it _does_ matter now to Microsoft. Watch in the next year - if software sales continue to lag as they do, I'd bet they will not only go with a "real" open source license, but they will become more and more standards compliant. Why? Simple. Although you didn't state it explicitly, the more interop there is, the more points on the 'net (or should that be .NET, *shudder*) that they can control.

Amazingly enough, interoperability of Internet-exposed components will become what Microsoft is _great_ at simply because the services model _demands_ it.

Creepy.