Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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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

Sandcastle Removed from Codeplex

by Sam Ramji on June 06, 2008

A number of people have alerted me in the last 24 hours that a Microsoft project called Sandcastle , located on Codeplex, used the Ms-PL and called itself “open source” yet never posted the source code. This is unacceptable and represents a violation... more

• Friday, June 06, 2008
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

Microsoft & Sourceforge

by jcannon on June 05, 2008

Over the past four years, we’ve been working with Sourceforge on a number of unique programs to help connect developers with the code and communities that interest them. In 2004, we started the Windows Installer XML (WiX) Toolkit project on Sourceforge... more

• Thursday, June 05, 2008
• in: Community
• jcannon

Passing Without Talking

by Paula Bach on February 05, 2008

My last blog was about me traveling to Limerick and Toronto. I have now defended my dissertation proposal and passed. (Yay!) Here is a funny story. A week before the proposal defense I created my presentation and rehearsed it every day until the third day before when I began to get a sore throat. I don’t think it was from rehearsing the presentation or nerves or anything like that. Instead it was just... more

• Tuesday, February 05, 2008
• in: Community
• Paula Bach