Open Source Day at Microsoft

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Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:18:39 GMT

The same week that Brad Smith (Microsoft’s General Counsel) keynoted at the Open Source Business Conference

re: Open Source Day at Microsoft

Jeff Smith — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:15:10 GMT

Great to see Microsoft working to understand the open source community a little bit better. I think it was great you made it available to all employees.

BTW that isn't snow. I live in the mountains of Utah. We do snow right. ;)

re: Open Source Day at Microsoft

yecarrillo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:12:08 GMT

For the record, MJM comments it´s a good remainder of this "strategy":

"We can’t share everything."

re: Open Source Day at Microsoft

Monteiro, Emiliano S. — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:04:11 GMT

Hi,

Next time try to share the presentations or some part of them.

thanks

reagards

from Brasil!

Prof. Monteiro

re: Open Source Day at Microsoft

MJM — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:16:07 GMT

Amy, we really appreciate your interest, but, since this was an internal event, we can’t share everything. We want to be sure our internal folks feel comfortable asking questions and having the hard discussions. Even the most open companies don’t put everything out there. :) However, I would like to bring some of the presenters on to Port 25 to talk about where they see Microsoft and OSS going in the near and long term. Keep your eye out for those interviews.

re: Open Source Day at Microsoft

Jim — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:21:16 GMT

I don't mean to be too dreary. I mean, I expect that there are very earnest people at Microsoft working with a very honest intent with respect to Open Source and interoperability therewith.

But it really looks like any earnest, honest folks have been betrayed by the overarching corporate strategy and intent.

After the recent, horrific ISO OOXML process (it feels too kind to call it a process) nobody with any investment in open source matters and progress will trust Microsoft. Not as far as they could spit a snake.

Glyn Moody treated the debaclw well in Linux Journal -- "The Besmirching of Microsoft". I *really* wished it had gone differntly. Imagine Microsoft taking the simple step of supporting the *existing* ISO standard as a way to gaining international acceptance by governments. And then let people use Microsoft Office because they *want* to. But no, instead Microsoft has to dream up a cockamamie "standard" of their own with some hope that they can lock folks in and *compel* unwitting consumers to use their product.

And then, along the way, Microsoft has trashed the standards process, permanently injured ISO (though it can be said that ISO handed Microsoft the pistol) and Microsoft has completely destroyed any credibility it might have had with respect to open source.

So if any of you earnest folks from Port25 go to open source conferences or to trade shows and people walk by, don't stop, but just look at you like they are looking at a freak show, you know where it all started.

It is really a shame. It could have been different. But it feels like another version of the scorpion and the frog. "I can't help it. It's my nature"

re: Open Source Day at Microsoft

Amy Stephen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:43:47 GMT

It would be great if Mario shared some of the presentation material. Also, would be great to see the Videos shared like Google does. Lots of learning could be shared worldwide.

Thanks for considering,

Amy :)