by Sam Ramji on July 23, 2009
Microsoft on Monday contributed the Linux Integration Component drivers to the Linux community for the reasons stated in our release. Microsoft chose the GPLv2 license for the mutual benefit of our customers, partners, the community, and Microsoft.... more
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by hjanssen on July 22, 2009
Well, here is blog number two. The initial shock has worn off a bit I hope. The feedback I have received so far has been pretty positive... more
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by Peter Galli on July 21, 2009
I'm back at the San Jose at the McEnery Convention Center after attending the Community Leadership Summit this weekend, where we are setting up the Microsoft booth in preparation for the formal opening of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention ( OSCON )... more
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by Peter Galli on July 21, 2009
Today, Microsoft announced the Live Services Plug-in for Moodle, a free download released under the General Public License v2 that integrates Microsoft's Live@edu services such as email, calendar, instant messaging and search directly into the Moodle... more
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by Peter Galli on June 29, 2009
As Microsoft continues to support and participate in open source communities, the company is again a proud sponsor of the annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention ( OSCON ), which is being held in San Jose from July 20 to July 24. In addition to having... more
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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
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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
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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 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
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by Sam Ramji on September 26, 2007
While at OSCON Sam and I had a chance to spend some time with Simon Peyton Jones to talk about Haskell, functional programming and other topics...... more
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by Sam Ramji on August 30, 2007
On the day before OSCON officially kicked off I was heading back from the Oregon Convention Center to downtown and ended up standing on the MAX next to someone who caught my attention for two reasons. First, he was the first person to tell me about the O'Reilly/Moglen conversation from earlier in the morning which I had missed. Second he had a cool flash based microphone that he used to record podcasts... 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 hanrahat on August 23, 2007
I’ve been a regular attendee of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland and Linux World Expo – San Francisco for several years, but this is the first time I represented Microsoft at them. Between the two conferences, I met a lot of people with whom I’ve worked for many years. I appreciate the encouraging words I received from many of them and I respect the concerns others expressed regarding... more
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by anandeep on August 17, 2007
My overall impression was that OSCON was lower key than last year. There seemed to be fewer booths in the Exhibition floor and less palpable excitement in the venue. A lot of people were complaining about the quality of the tutorials and the talks. Or it may just be that this was my second time around attending OSCON and it didn’t have the same quality of excitement for me compared to the very first... more
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