Open Source at Microsoft -- Herdin' cats or Cow Chips?

re: Open Source at Microsoft -- Herdin' cats or Cow Chips?

GarrettS — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:58:45 GMT

I just got this:

"You want to be open? Then enable anonymous commenting on your blog. So much easier for anyone to give you feedback."

Sorry... I didn't even know that it was set for no anonymous--FIXED.

Although, this is a good point to make too: I'd like to know who's talking to me :D

re: Open Source at Microsoft -- Herdin' cats or Cow Chips?

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:33:50 GMT

I just thought I'd mention Allegiance (www.freeallegiance.org) to you, an open-source (well, shared-source in legalese) game that was originally developed by Microsoft Research.

re: Open Source at Microsoft -- Herdin' cats or Cow Chips?

Darren Rush — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:36:55 GMT

Garrett, congratulations on your new gig! I think the Microsoft Open Source Lab is one of the best groups to be in - you're in a perfect spot to create tremendous value for the community and help Microsoft navigate in the new world order where open source and proprietary systems can peacefully coexist.

re: Open Source at Microsoft -- Herdin' cats or Cow Chips?

Angel "Java" Lopez — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:47:38 GMT

Great!

I have an open source project, for .NET (a code generation engine). I lot of people have great open source projects (not Linux related, Windows based, .NET based), what is your plan for such projects?

Open Source en Microsoft

Angel "Java" Lopez — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:54:31 GMT

Garret Serack de Microsoft, ha pasado al grupo Open Source Software Labs de la misma empresa. Aunque

re: Open Source at Microsoft -- Herdin' cats or Cow Chips?

Marcos — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:47:39 GMT

Great News !!

I hope you the best, the open source developers need a lot of support, in a lot of ways, at the end we are helping to make .NET better for developers and companies, so we need to be taken into account =)

The MSDN licenses, I think, must to be the first thing for projects with some life time, I remember that the NDoc developer dont have any VS license and was developing in Express !!! until one MVP give him an invitation.

If you want feedback, just request it, and a lot of Open Source project leaders will be happy to help you ou help us to keep our projects running =)

Best of luck

Marcos Meli

Open Source Developer - www.filehelpers.com

re: Open Source at Microsoft -- Herdin' cats or Cow Chips?

Martin Salias — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:44:07 GMT

Congratulations, Garret!

I hope you can succeed in convincing the Visual Studio team, for example, about playing well with OS .NET Projects like NUnit, NAnt, NCover and the rest, instead of coming up with their own -incompatible- tools inside VS, reinventing the wheel (and sometimes not even making a round one).

Microsoft definitively needs to learn to leverage the OS community as a whole. Although there are groups that really get into it, the organization as a whole seems clueless.

Best luck!

Garrett Serack: Open Source Software Community Lead

Port 25 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:03:01 GMT

I'm pleased to announce ... er, myself, as the Open Source Community Lead here at Microsoft. I'd