Hopefully, we all understand the benefits of open-source... but we must also consider free market will. If 98% of the web can view flash content, why would MM want to spend precious development dollars to alter the product to appeal to a small audience of people who have actually downloaded the enormous SVG viewer? Open mark-up is a fantastic ideal, but in the real world, complex programmatical tasks take weeks to develop and months to de-bug, and can often be done more effectively and cost-efficiently by a simple function of a proprietary software like Flash. By sticking strictly to SMIL, XML, and open standards, MM would limit their potential and alienate their core users- common developers, graphic artists, and small business owners like myself, not cave-dwelling anti-corporate linux hacks who can only think about the good ol' day's when they were alone on the web. If you want to be a part of the future of the web, I've got a stock tip for you: MACR