May 2008 - Posts

28 May 2008
Strategic Use of Collaborative Development in South Africa - Follow Up
Last week I wrote a blog entry stemming from my experience in South Africa and my impressions about the way the OSS preference policy is being considered. What has come of it is a string of rather pointed comments questioning my intelligence and calling Read More...
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21 May 2008
Open XML, ODF, PDF, and XPS in Office
Clearly the Press Announcement today from Microsoft will bring about another wave of discourse on the future of document formats. The really short version of this announcement is that Office is going to support ODF, PDF, and XPS in the product directly Read More...
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19 May 2008
The Politics of OSS Still Overshadow The Benefits of Collaborative Development
It has now been almost three years since I stepped away from working daily on open source opportunities for Microsoft. I've watched the team that took on Shared Source morph it into some extremely positive collaborative work that is exactly what OSS is Read More...
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