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The Imperative of Participation

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

• Friday, November 09, 2007
• in: Community
• Bryan Kirschner

Open Standards, Open Formats, and Open Source: Bryan Kirschner Interviews Alfonso Fuggetta

by MichaelF on August 24, 2006

Alfonso Fuggetta is a Professor of Software Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Italy, CEO of CEFRIEL and Faculty Associate for the University of California, Irvine's Institute of Software Research. Among his many activities, Alfonso advises European Policy Makers on Information Technology Issues. ... more

• Thursday, August 24, 2006
• in: Media
• MichaelF