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The moral of this week's story: You can't have it both ways.

The examples are many. Either a company is an open-source vendor or it isn't. Either a company is opening up its source code and programming interfaces or it is keeping them proprietary.

In recent weeks, Microsoft seems to have stepped up its attempts to capitalize on the gray area between open and closed. First, according to some developers close to the company, Microsoft was contemplating the idea of making its Windows CE source code available for free to embedded device vendors. Sources say Microsoft was planning to play that up as "opening up the Windows CE source...................

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