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    by Sam Ramji on July 25, 2008

    I’m writing this from Portland, Oregon where one of the world’s largest Open Source conferences is taking place: OSCON. This year’s event is focused on a theme of “ten years of open source,” referring to 1998 as the year that Eric S. Raymond, Danese Cooper... more

    • Friday, July 25, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    The OSP and You
    by Richard Wilder on July 25, 2008

    I am the Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Microsoft, having joined the company about 9 months ago. My role is to work with a variety of constituencies inside the company and outside to help shape the approach we take to intellectual... more

    • Friday, July 25, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Richard Wilder
    Participating Actively
    by Bryan Kirschner on July 23, 2008

    Now that we’ve had our first “participate” event in conjunction with OSCON here in Portland, I wanted to share a few thoughts. This was a great experience and a great event—or, really, two consecutive events, the morning case study discussion and the... more

    • Wednesday, July 23, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Participate08
    by Bryan Kirschner on July 18, 2008

    On July 21 I will have the honor and pleasure of being the sponsor, host, and an active participant in participate08 . participate08 is a one-day summit held in coordination with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference(OSCON). It is designed to facilitate... more

    • Friday, July 18, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Bryan Kirschner
    Mindtouch: Deki, OSS and Windows
    by jcannon on July 16, 2008

    Our community knows that open source businesses are important to Microsoft. Nothing demonstrates this better than the fact that open source was a key theme in the recent Windows Server 2008 Launch. You can read more about that here . One of the individuals... more

    Sandcastle Redux
    by Sam Ramji on July 02, 2008

    I am very pleased to announce that the Microsoft SandCastle project team has reconfirmed its strong support for the Ms-PL and is preparing to release all source code for the Sandcastle project immediately. This was a non-trivial effort and I applaud them... more

    • Wednesday, July 02, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
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