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Time to Say Goodbye

by Bryan Kirschner on April 28, 2009

The first time I went to a LinuxWorld conference as a Microsoft employee, a guy passing by me saw "Microsoft" on my name badge and stopped. "Microsoft? What are you guys doing here?" he said. "I loved Microsoft. You put my kids through college." As it... more

• Tuesday, April 28, 2009
• in: Community
• Bryan Kirschner

The Imperative of Participation

by Bryan Kirschner on November 09, 2007

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 a basic fact that is often forgotten. The surface area of the globe below represents the total number of the people working in the technology ecosystem... more

• Friday, November 09, 2007
• in: Community
• Bryan Kirschner