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- Shared Source
- A licensing agreement from Microsoft for selected customers that allows them to look at certain parts of Microsoft source code. The companies are encouraged to make suggestions, but unlike...
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- Microsoft gets the open-source licensing nod from the OSI
- Microsoft gets the open-source licensing nod from the OSIOh mah gosh!Hell just froze over! ]:)It gets better for users and coders everyday.Keep up the good efforts Microsoft!wait and seeLet's not get too excited. Just because they hammered out the terms for two licenses doesn't mean that they will release anything...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, .NET, Shared Source, Impartiality, Microsoft Corp., OSI, software, open source, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- Microsoft and open source: Frost sightings in hell
- (This is a guest post by Stephen Walli, a software consultant specializing in open-source, and a former Microsoft program manager for the Shared Source implementation of the ECMA Common Language Infrastructure.)Bill Hilf, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy, announced two things last week at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in...
- Tags: Shared Source, Linux, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Microsoft now wants its Shared Source licenses to qualify as open source
- Microsoft has decided it wants its Shared Source license to get the official "open source" label, after all.Microsoft officials said at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference OSCON conference this week that they are going to seek Open Source Initiative OSI approval, but have not provided a specific timetable as to...
- Tags: Shared Source, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Microsoft Tech Summit: The 'non-fanboys' descend on Redmond
- Microsoft is big on inviting not just its customers and partners, but non-believers, too, to visit the Microsoft campus and discover for themselves that Softies are people, too. (And who better to ask than Java, PHP and Linux developers -- as Microsoft execs seemingly did several times during...
- Tags: WPF/e, Windows server, Windows client, Web 2.0, Visual Studio Orcas, Shared Source, Linux, Development tools, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Microsoft to release FoxPro 'Sedna' as Shared Source
- At the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional MVP Summit in Seattle this week, Microsoft officials shared Shared Source news with the Visual FoxPro faithful and other attendees. The latest: Microsoft plans to release by the end of this summer the Foxpro "Sedna" bits as Shared Source on its CodePlex code-repository site....
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, VFP, Sedna, Microsoft Corp., Shared Source
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Just how closely is Microsoft studying the open-source play book?
- Its no secret that Microsoft has been analyzing the open-source world for a few years now from a competitive perspective. Microsoft is endeavoring to emulate some open-source best practices with projects like its officelabs incubator effort. But if you really want to understand the extent to which the Softies...
- Tags: Shared Source, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Microsoft floats a new Shared Source trial balloon
- Microsoft floats a new Shared Source trial balloonYou are asking..."[i]Will including the CE kernel under Shared Source make it more attractive to device makers who've been working with or leaning toward working with Linux and other more liberally licensed operating systems?[/i]"You are asking that question here on ZDNet, thinking you...
- Tags: Shared Source, trial balloon, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- Microsoft floats a new Shared Source trial balloon
- Microsoft traditionally has used its ten-year-old Windows CE platform as a testing ground for source-code code-licensing strategy. On November 1, the company took another step in this arena by making all of its Windows CE 6.0 kernel available under a new element of Microsoft's Shared Source licensing program. "This...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows CE, Shared Source
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Microsoft objects
- Microsoft objectsWho said they needed to "give" anything?Dana, your one side posts are BORING. Do us a favor, make a nice big post saying "MS evil, open sores good", and then go away.double standards"Fine enough. But how far is Microsoft going, really? How much is it giving, not just...
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Shared Source, open source
- Discussion threads 2006-06-13
- Microsoft dips toe in shared source
- Microsoft dips toe in shared sourceMicrosoft dips toe in shared sourceGood for Microsoft. They should want to share some code like this so their partners can make better products. Of course this isn't the first time they shared code, but still its good to see them do it...
- Tags: shared source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-02
Additional Resources
- October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu
- October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. And over the weekend, Novell-sponsored Mono project announced the...
- Tags: Mono, Ubuntu, Drupal, October, Linux, OpenOffice, .Net, Open Source, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Crowdsourcing? Try expert sourcing
- Corporate America has hopped on the crowd sourcing bandwagon, but they may want to start considering another option: Expert sourcing. That's one of the big takeaways from a report by Forrester Research. Forrester analyst Chris Townsend writes: Corporate use of Innovation Networks is rapidly expanding as...
- Tags: Sourcing, Crowdsourcing, Forrester Research Inc., Expert Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Microsoft bad cop is up against the wall
- Last time they played this game they were pushing OOXML as an ISO standard. Before that they were promising to bury open source in patent suits. Now they're trying to sneak semi-proprietary code on their own site. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Cop, Wall, Lex Luthor, Godzilla, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Mac ready the enterprise?
- Mac ready the enterprise?My work MacBook Pro just experienced this very problem...My work MacBook Pro just experienced this very problem. When I'm at home I connect it to my external 22" CRT, keyboard, mouse, etc. It stays there until I get back to work where I use it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Notebooks, laptop computer, video, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Stop brain-dead software testing!
- Stop brain-dead software testing!re: Stop brain-dead software testingin reality, its not usually software testing that's the problem. it's the project stakeholders who don't plan enough time to do adequate testing. it's the programmers who go way over their time estimates. it's the program managers or similar role...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software testing, software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Blood in the water and open source on the tracks
- Blood in the water and open source on the tracksConsolidationYou've noticed, then, that the number of banks has been decreasing. And that the survivors are able to make substantial profits.True of the software industry as well, as you imply. Smaller companies of value are likely to be bought...
- Tags: open source, Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false
- Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is falseWhat a knee jerk reaction by Wall Street.What a bunch of idiots.RE: Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false[i]cited an unnamed "reliable" source [/i]And there is the problem! Sounds like someone did this just as a prank....
- Tags: Federal government, Steve Jobs, Apple SAYS, heart attack, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Blood in the water and open source on the tracks
- The sun will come up tomorrow, Matt, even if Sun sets. With open source that sunrise will be faster and more brilliant than what we saw before. I guarantee it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
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