1.	We've been sitting on the sidelines of the Open Source world, waiting for the right moment to get UserLand and its community into it. We've watched, as Linux, Apache, SendMail, Gnome, KDE and Zope go forward. We saw Apple enter the Open Source world with Darwin. We listened, thought, asked questions, learned, waited.
2.	There's still a chasm, a gap to be jumped, but it's narrowing. There are ways for us to work together. We had to change, for sure, and so did the Open Source world. Now, enough change has happened, and on Monday, UserLand took its first step by releasing MacBird as Open Source.