Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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The OSP and You

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

• Friday, July 25, 2008
• in: Community
• Richard Wilder

Dominic Sartorio on SpikeSource and Open Source Interoperability

by Community Contributor on February 27, 2008

First, many thanks to Microsoft’s Port 25 Team for the opportunity to post today! Today SpikeSource announced the availability of five additional PHP-based applications on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Gallery, Mantis, Moodle, PhpBB and WebCalendar... more

• Wednesday, February 27, 2008
• in: Server Center
• Community Contributor

A Brief History of Open at Microsoft

by Sam Ramji on February 22, 2008

Four years ago, we started the Linux Lab at Microsoft. Two years ago, we established the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft. One year ago, we initiated the Linux Interoperability Lab at Microsoft. Yesterday, we announced the broadest change to the... more

• Friday, February 22, 2008
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

See Change

by billhilf on February 21, 2008

I have always been a fan of Tim O’Reilly’s phrase the “ architecture of participation ” to describe “systems designed for user contribution.” I liked it so much that at last year’s OSCON I made this concept the focal point of a discussion about how Microsoft... more

• Thursday, February 21, 2008
• in: Community
• billhilf