Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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Finally... dive-into-the-deep participation!

by anandeep on November 07, 2008

Whenever people get to know that I work in the Open Source Lab at Microsoft, there are a few knee jerk questions they always have. The most common one is: "Microsoft has an Open Source Lab?", while another question often asked is: "So when is Microsoft... more

• Friday, November 07, 2008
• in: Community
• anandeep

Can Open Source Scratch an Itch Before It Happens?

by anandeep on February 05, 2007

I am an avid reader of Joel On Software – I find his insights great and very revealing. I was reading a recent blog post by Joel entitled “The Big Picture”  in which he has this to say about open source: “Open source doesn’t quite work like that. It’s really good at implementing copycat features, because there’s a spec to work from: the implementation you’re copying. It’s really good at Itch Scratching... more

• Monday, February 05, 2007
• in: Community
• anandeep

Thoughts from OSCON: Development Practices

by MichaelF on August 14, 2006

I recently attended OSCON 2006, and had a lot of fun being there. Microsoft’s presence in the Open Source World is still a novelty (to say the least), so I always got a reaction out of people at the conference when they saw my badge! ... more

• Monday, August 14, 2006
• in: Community
• MichaelF