The same week that Brad Smith (Microsoft’s General Counsel) keynoted at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) , we held our first Microsoft-wide Open Source Day (which Jamie and Mario both blogged about). We all noticed folks expressed interest in...
- Friday, April 25, 2008
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“Our goal here is to evolve and to hopefully provide information that makes it easier for people using OSS and Microsoft software in the real world.” Bill Hilf wrote this in an April 2006 blog entitled “Who Would Have Guessed?” just one week after Port25...
- Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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My participation in technology was transformed by the Commodore 64. That's why I--like others here at Port25 and over at Slashdot--still love it after 25 years. Natales posts: "I can't emphasize enough how "mind shaping" was learning assembly language...
- Friday, December 14, 2007
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There’s been a flurry of articles and blogs about Microsoft’s open source strategy lately , spurred in part by an interview with Bill Hilf (Zachary Rodriques Connolly … and a comment from davidmeyer on my previous post). Collectively they make me think...
- Tuesday, December 04, 2007
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I blogged awhile back about “Microsoft and open source growing together”—more in the sense of concurrency rather than causality. Today I’m blogging about the latter. I’ve found the graphic below to be one of the most powerful visual representations of...
- Friday, November 09, 2007
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When I describe my job as “helping Microsoft and open source to grow together,” I get a broad range of reactions from people outside and inside of Microsoft. These reactions have included sentiments along the lines of “that must be tough,” or “you must...
- Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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