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
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by Bryan Kirschner on November 24, 2008
I was recently at Harvard for two events. The first, which I'll talk about in this blog, was part of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard lunch series. Mario Madden and I were invited to speak at a session called " Microsoft and Open... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on October 28, 2008
The city of Matsue, Japan is using Ruby to promote regional economic development . One of the unexpected highlights of the recent GOSCON , was a gentleman from Matsue coming up to me after I had given my talk about open source and Microsoft and saying... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on October 14, 2008
Last year, we sponsored GOSON 2007 , the Government Open Source Conference, and we're sponsoring it again this year. I will also be presenting a keynote address on how Microsoft participates in a world of choice. I'm personally also excited that Brian... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on October 14, 2008
It is just two months since Microsoft finalized the acquisition of Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset's goals are to "change the way humans interact with computers through language "- improving search by indexing... more
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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
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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
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by Bryan Kirschner on April 25, 2008
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... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on February 05, 2008
“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 launched. Although in hindsight it seems obvious Port25 was a good idea, back then there was a lot of guessing and finger-crossing...... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on December 14, 2007
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 on the 6502..." Neither can I. I was 10, and needed to learn assembly to make a game I was writing run faster. I still remember there was a free... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on December 04, 2007
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 of a bunch of things to blog about—today I’m going to start with something that struck me about davidmeyer’s comment (--out of unabashed favoritism... more
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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
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by Bryan Kirschner on August 29, 2007
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 be a glutton for punishment” on occasion.
After wrapping up a fairly momentous year culminating in OSCON (see this and this), I thought the time... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on June 04, 2007
OSBC made me think. There were some simple highlights (like introducing myself and being recognzied as “a Port 25 blogger”…my 1.5 minutes of fame). And certainly a lowlight was the concern many people expressed around whether Microsoft’s open source strategy has changed (no, it hasn’t, another reason why going to OSBC and having those conversations is important). But what really started me thinking... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on May 20, 2007
I just read Bill and Sam’s “Business as Usual” post. It made me think about the fact Port 25 was established in part to apply the idea that “transparency increases trust” to the work we do with the lab. So I’m sitting down to do a blog entry that’s a bit longer than usual, but will provide transparency about why “business as usual” for me. I previously blogged about a project we were starting to... more
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