To open source or not to open source...

I was im'ing with a good friend from Austin, catching up after a few months off.

She was somewhere on the west coast on a business trip. She mentioned that I should open source the whole thing. She is working on SOA a lot lately. The whole thing is hard to test. So buddy, open source it!

I have toyed with the idea before, and yes SOA is hard to test. But then one looks into WPF and the ball-and-chain (to paraphrase Jobs) Microsoft is putting on these widgets just to make sure they are testable and one realizes that before testing SOA we would need to make sure that simplest things work.

BTW, I am been trying to figure out for several days why would anybody want to take that approach to no avail.