Today is an historic day as Dave Winer writes that it's As good a time as any to announce that...

"At some point in the next few months, there will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel. Not sure what license it'll use. There won't be any grand expectations of what kind of community will develop. Even if no bugs get fixed, if no features get added, if no new OSes are supported, it will be worth it, because its future will be assured. That's the point Ted makes, and that's my reasoning behind this.

We decided this quite some time ago, but waited for the right moment to start discussing it publicly. It seems now is the right time, or as good a time as any."

This is fantastic news. In fact on the train in to work this morning I was pondering the future of Frontier and UserTalk and my continued commitment to what has been a proprietary platform. Of course, lots of details need to be ironed and announced by UserLand so I'll be waiting with bated breath for these.

I'll also be very interested in reading what some of the Frontier old-timers have to say about this development. In the past the Frontier community was one of the brightest, most helpful and resourceful, and if the new community is anything like the old it's going to be a very exciting and interesting future.

Way to go UserLand!