At least MS is making some improvements. The big advantage of dealing with open ...

		GrandMasterBirt on Jan 28, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IE8's JavaScript performance lags well behind Safa... At least MS is making some improvements. The big advantage of dealing with open source projects is that you can steal from other open source probjects, while MS can't touch a single line of mozilla or webkit or v8 code since it will be forced to make their own engine open source! Ah sweet irony.

V8 is BSD-licensed, so they potentially could.