Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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• Bill Hilf
• Bryan Kirschner
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• Sam Ramji

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

Shipping Containers and Standardization

by billhilf on November 28, 2006

I’m sitting in Istanbul watching ships – big ships with huge loads of containers on board. I recently finished a great book titled The Box, How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson (2006), a fascinating analysis of the history of the shipping container. It may sound dry, but it’s a very interesting story – particularly of the entrepreneur, Malcom... more

• Tuesday, November 28, 2006
• in: Community
• billhilf

Sendmail on Sender-ID

by Sam Ramji on November 20, 2006

Eric Allman (founder of Sendmail, inventor of Allman notation, original hacker) graciously took some time with me to discuss his take on Microsoft’s opening of the Sender-ID specification. Thank you, Eric!... more

• Monday, November 20, 2006
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji