OSCON and Everything After

Talk or Walk

Port 25 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:33:00 GMT

There’s been a flurry of articles and blogs about Microsoft’s open source strategy lately , spurred in part by an interview with Bill Hilf (Zachary Rodriques Connolly … and a comment from davidmeyer on my previous post). Collectively they make me think

How Did It Start For You?

Port 25 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:25:45 GMT

My participation in technology was transformed by the Commodore 64. That's why I--like others here at Port25 and over at Slashdot--still love it after 25 years. Natales posts: "I can't emphasize enough how "mind shaping" was learning assembly language

The Imperative of Participation

Port 25 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:08:05 GMT

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

re: OSCON and Everything After

davidmeyer — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:38:28 GMT

I think your posting does a lot to document fact from FUD. Thanks for sharing this accurately!

Interesting Graph from Port25

Open Sources — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:25:01 GMT

Bryan Kirschner over at Port25 has a very interesting graph: What does the graph show? According to Bryan: "It’s showing Microsoft’s reported fiscal year revenue, which grew to $51.122B USD in 2007 from $6.075B in 1995 .... During most of this time, we

re: OSCON and Everything After

stryqx — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:38:01 GMT

You forgot to include the fact that during this time Microsoft purchased Hotmail, then proceeded to migrate it from FreeBSD et al to Windows 2000 - during which time the .NET Framework was developed on both Windows and FreeBSD (Rotor) - for which the CLI received ECMA certification and was also used to implement Passport across multiple OSes.

Also, the efforts to support SugarCRM on Windows and getting PHP to play nicely with IIS7 shouldn't go unmentioned.