Browse by Tags

All Tags » Shared Source Programs   (RSS)
16 October 2007
OSI Approves MS Licenses
Today the news hit that two licenses from Microsoft were approved by the Open Source Initiative as official open source licenses. The licenses were submitted back in early August and a good deal of discussion and work has been going on since then. Jon Read More...
6 Comments  
26 July 2007
Microsoft OSS Web Site
Today Microsoft launched its new open source web site . Starting in 2001, we began thinking long and hard about open source from the perspective of it as a dev model, a business model, a licensing model, and a philosophical approach to software. Like Read More...
11 Comments  
25 July 2007
Grab Bag Today - More on Open XML, Iron Projects, IBM's Spec Pledge
A couple of things to pop up on my blog today: Stephen McGibbon wrote a blog posting this week about Open XML and his participation in Portugal. There has been commentary about this up on Groklaw and Stephen addresses those issues directly. [Adding to Read More...
3 Comments  
19 March 2007
FoxPro Going to CodePlex
I just saw that Microsoft is moving FoxPro to the CodePlex site. In other words, as the company has made a decision not to move FoxPro beyond the 9.0 version it will enable the dev community that is passionate about the technology to continue to work Read More...
7 Comments  
15 November 2006
Thank You For The Feedback
Most of the time I try to respond to the comments that come into my blog. There has been a rush of comments since the linking of my posting to a few news articles. 1) Thank you for the comments - I know many of you are skeptical about this process, and Read More...
22 Comments  
02 December 2005
And Now, For My Next Act....
Years ago, it was suggested that there was a civil war in Microsoft based on open source. There allegedly was the Star Wars–inspired rebel alliance of openness fighting against the forces of closed. Coming out of that set of accusations, I was always Read More...
7 Comments  
02 November 2005
New Shared Source Release - MBS Solomon
Once again my friend Matt Asay is putting on a strong show at OSBC East . The OSBC conferences have been interesting to me because of their focus on those that are building businesses around OSS . In my keynote on Wed. this week I will be taking a look Read More...
1 Comments  
19 October 2005
New Shared Source Releases
9 new Shared Source releases. Read More...
0 Comments  
19 October 2005
Shared Source Licensing
Microsoft releases 3 simplified source code licenses. Read More...
6 Comments  
18 October 2005
Windows Template Library
The project leader for the Windows Template Library project up on SourceForge dropped me a note the other day. In case you are interested, the WTL project just released Beta 1 of WTL 7.5. Here are the links. Project link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl Read More...
1 Comments  
02 June 2005
Shared Source - More Dev Toys
There are groups all over Microsoft that are posting source for interesting little bits and pieces. These are all licensed for commerical or non-commercial modification and distribution. These came to me courtesy of Josh Ledgard . Check them out and enjoy. Read More...
3 Comments  
26 May 2005
Bluetooth Wrapper
During my blogging hiatus in May there was a cool release from our embedded folks. Here is the description and a link or two: Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology Developing for Bluetooth technology (exposing Bluetooth services, enumerating Read More...
2 Comments  
26 May 2005
WiX - heading towards 150K
Kudos to Rob Mensching and his great Shared Source project, Windows Installer XML - otherwise known as WiX. SourceForge.net statistics came back online recently and it turns out that more than 145,000 folks have found WiX to be interesting. Even more Read More...
0 Comments  
24 May 2005
Visual Basic Power Pack - Shared Source Licensed Stuff
Here is the Visual Basic Power Pack which consists of seven custom controls written in Visual Basic .NET 2003 and licensed under a Shared Source license. The controls provide enhanced user interface elements and enable you to create more interesting and Read More...
0 Comments  
24 May 2005
Microsoft Developer Powertoys - Shared Source Licensed Stuff
I've been meaning to blog this for a while. Josh Ledgard has been doing some great work with the developer community. He hosts the Developer Powertoys blog which is really worth checking out if you haven't seen it (and if you are a developer of course). Read More...
0 Comments  
More Posts Next page »
Page view tracker