Matt Mullenweg just posted that TinyMCE, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, has been integrated into Wordpress 1.6. Drupal actually has three separate WYSIWYG modules available, but both Bryght and CivicSpace have chosen to include TinyMCE in their bundles.

Troy complained about the lack of WYSIWYG recently. I threw TinyMCE at him, and he actually did find that it munged cut and paste from Word a little bit, but with the many hundreds of thousands (millions?) of users of Wordpress and Drupal using TinyMCE, I'm sure we'll see it improve very quickly from it's already great state. So that's momentum.

The commodity part is that we can now place a checkmark in the WYSIWYG column. We don't have to worry about it...it's just there.

This has already occurred for lower levels, like the popular LAMP stack that seems to power most of the Internet. Underneath that are managed hosting services running on commodity hardware. As we keep placing checkmarks at higher and higher layers, we can leverage the momentum of commodity and focus on every more complex and rich challenges.

Open source is a big part of this, by letting ecosystems grow around shared expertise that drives everyone forward. At this past weeks OSCON conference, I really got the sense that we've turned the corner. Open source is viable, open source has a place in business, and there are more interesting variants on open source models to come.