Welcome Live Mesh!

StevenLees — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:18:00 GMT

It's great to see the public announcement of the Live Mesh Technology Preview from the Live Mesh team. Live Mesh is a Software + Services platform, and it uses FeedSync as the core sync technology. See my blog post here for more info and some links.

We'll be talking more about the developer experience for Live Mesh in a few months, but in the meantime stay tuned here for more samples and discussion of FeedSync so that you'll be ready for the Mesh when the time comes.

--Steven

FeedSync and the OSP

StevenLees — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:16:50 GMT

Since our publication of the FeedSync 1.0 specification earlier this month, a few people have asked me questions about the licensing terms in the spec.

So, today, we wanted to make our intent as clear as possible by covering the FeedSync specification under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. By doing this, we are confirming that anyone can implement the FeedSync specification for free.

The specification itself remains under the same Creative Commons copyright license, as described in Section 6 of the spec. What this means, roughly, is that if you want to create a derivative version of the specification, you're welcome to do so as long as you properly attribute the original spec, and you provide your work under the same license. Full details are here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0.

The Open Specification Promise is intended for developers who want to implement the spec. As is our general practice (and general practice within the industry), we have filed patents on innovations relating to FeedSync. As the spec has stated since the original version, it has always been our intent to enable broad royalty-free use of the specification. We are now covering the FeedSync specification under the Open Specification Promise to enable that use in a simple way, and to reassure you that you're welcome to implement the specification for free, easily, now and forever.

The Open Specification Promise is the same royalty-free patent promise that Microsoft has used for the WS-* and other specifications. One of the benefits is simplicity: the promise is very clear that other than reading and agreeing with the terms, you don't need to sign it or have any interaction with Microsoft in order to benefit from it. In other words, It Just Works. We developed the promise based on feedback from customers and the open source community. You can find more information about it at http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx, and see specific community feedback here.

--Steven

Welcome to FeedSync!

StevenLees — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:37:18 GMT

This new blog is the place to look for FeedSync news and announcements. I'll be posting FeedSync related news here, such as news about new sample code and implementation guidelines. I'll also continue to post more detailed technical information about FeedSync on my MSDN blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenlees/.

--Steven

FeedSync News

Welcome Live Mesh!

FeedSync and the OSP

Welcome to FeedSync!