Joining Microsoft’s Open Source Effort
“Open source at Microsoft.” My friends still find that phrase surprising. Yet for those of us who have worked so long on open source, if we really believe the principles we have espoused, shouldn’t this be the expected outcome?
In 1994 I did my first Linux install. It was an early version of Slackware, running the 1.0.8 kernel. The term “open source” was still several years in the future. While I never really accepted the basic premises behind the ideology of the Free Software movement, the methodology we later called “open source” seemed obvious and sensible. Share knowledge, collaborate with others, expect and encourage others to evolve your ideas and share their innovations. In other domains, we call this the Scientific Method. Without the ability to openly share ideas, the process of scientific discovery would come to a grinding halt, and we’d be stuck in something like the medieval era of alchemy.
Joining Microsoft’s Open Source Effort – Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft
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