microsoft and opensource ms ps 2011
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Nick Hodge
MAY CONTAIN LOLCATS
Professional Geek
Dork > Nerd > Geek
Developer Evangelist inOpen Source Communities
@NickHodgeMSFT
So, you’re thinking…
Microsoft & Open source
Bwahhahahahaha…
You are out of your tiny mind, right?
Microsoft Open
source
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/
Microsoft makes & licenses intellectual property
10,000s of engineers
Coding
To make software that customers use.
If it makes a difference
Fair to say people have more choice
Free & Open source is a valid mechanism for creating & sharing
intellectual property
“intellectual property”
Legal mechanisms, centuries old
Patents.Copyrights.
Free:Beer and/or Freedom
Windows Live Essentials, Visual Studio Express, Dreamspark …
… there is a lot of free beer.
This is all too intellectual.We’re talking about Linux
It’s like free, yeah?
Yes, free as in beer.
Really, how much is your time worth?
If you want to nerd around
Just get stuff done
… but not pay the FRUITBOX tax
So, Microsoft still hates Open source, right?
It’s the Interwebs, stupid!
Let’s look at examples
MahTweets(MS-PL)
Hyper-V Linux Integration in kernels post 2.6.32
(GPLv2)
PHP 5.2 & above
PHP Cache Extension for Windows
JQueryGPL & MIT
Moodle & Live@Edu(GPLv2)
Joomla!(GPLv2)
Wordpress 2.7.1 & later(GPLv2)
ASP.NET MVC(MS-PL)
Web Platform Installer
IronPython, IronRuby, F#(Apache)
http://codeplex.com/
Mono & Moonlight(C# & .NET to Linux, Android,
FRUITBOXES)
http://port25.technet.com/
http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/
Silverlight Toolkit
Okay. That’s a lot of stuff™
All technical organisations use Open source to further their aims
Microsoft is no different
I am available to talk at your school
Any more questions?