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Microsoft Releases Device Driver Code to the Linux Community

by Peter Galli on July 20, 2009

In what many may see as a surprising move, Microsoft today released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the popular General Public Licence v2... more

• Monday, July 20, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Microsoft Teams up With Black Duck Software

by Peter Galli on May 18, 2009

Microsoft and Black Duck Software this morning announced an agreement under which projects from CodePlex will be fed automatically into Black Duck's open source KnowledgeBase repository, and which will also will be searchable through Koders.com, a search... more

• Monday, May 18, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Open Source Interoperability Projects

by Jean Paoli on November 07, 2008

Interoperability has always been a focus area at Microsoft. Being a platform company, Microsoft has engaged in interoperability at many levels - product features, participation in standardization bodies, publishing many technologies under open licenses... more

• Friday, November 07, 2008
• in: Community
• Jean Paoli

Sam chats with Bitrock on Open Source Installation and Package Management

by Sam Ramji on November 09, 2007

Sam recently interviewed Daniel Lopez, Founder and CTO and Erica Brescia, CEO of Bitrock from their Spain headquarters. Daniel and Erica discuss their experiences and challenges developing open source applications and launching the BitNami project.... more

• Friday, November 09, 2007
• in: Media
• Sam Ramji