Love this ad on the back of this month’s Wired magazine. Patron clearly showing that they are down with the geeks when it comes to technology, and in fact is great lead in to talk about Microsoft’s more open stance when it comes to software development and the licensing of intellectual property.
How are we becoming more open? In lots of ways, for example last week at the OSCON conference Microsoft announced their first contribution to the PHP community projects with the ADOdb patches. The work that the open source team at Microsoft are doing is really starting to pay off with Linus even coming out saying that Microsoft hatred “a disease”.
Here’s another something that you might not be aware of too, the MS-PL license – the license we release may of our CodePlex projects - is a one-pager (well actually it’s even shorter than that) and is probably one of the most succinct software licenses I’ve seen. It’s this kind of work that really grabs the attention of Microsoft-haters and shows them that we are doing some cool stuff with the open source community.