Nick Hodge

MAY CONTAIN LOLCATS

Professional Geek

Dork > Nerd > Geek

Developer Evangelist inOpen Source Communities

nhodge@microsoft.com

@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?