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Microsoft and ApacheCon 2009

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:21:05 GMT

This week marks the 10 th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation, which is being celebrated at

A Chat With Apache Software Foundation President Justin Erenkrantz

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:04 GMT

This week the Apache Software Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary at its annual U.S. ApacheCon

The CodePlex Foundation Debuts

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:44:48 GMT

Many of you will, by now, have heard about the formation of the CodePlex Foundation. In order to give you an in-depth look into the thinking behind the Foundation, I talked to Bill Staples, the General Manager for the Web Platform and Tools Team at Microsoft

Microsoft Releases Device Driver Code to the Linux Community

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:00:06 GMT

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

Web Sandbox Source Now Available Under Apache License 2.0

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:45:39 GMT

Microsoft has released more source code under an OSI-approved license: this time it has made the source

celebrity photos

celebrity photos — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:55:35 GMT

Don’ t know why this made me laugh... hmm, maybe cuz it’ s such a FOXY BROWN thing to do. Those fracking tats is how I tell them apart actually. LOL, and just remembered that I was at the new MAC store in Rancho Mirage last night and they have a huuuuge

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Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:44:59 GMT

I delivered the keynote at ApacheCon in New Orleans today, where I talked about some of the new milestones