'..These are important steps in Microsoft evolving into a more open future..'<blockquote>'Recently
Microsoft Open Technologies celebrated their one year anniversary. I just wanted to offer my congratulations on this important milestone.
Now, it could be tempting for some of you to become a little snitty about Microsoft wanting to engage more openly with people, but I believe that this project (as well as the
OuterCurve Foundation; a different but similarly themed entity) should be celebrated. These are important steps in Microsoft evolving into a more open future, and folks such as
Gianugo Rabellino from Microsoft Open Technologies and
Paula Hunter and
Stephen Walli from the OuterCurve Foundation are doing wonderful work in treading these careful steps forward. All three of these folks have been tremendously supportive of Open Source, community (including sponsoring the
Community Leadership Summit multiple times), and demonstrate a real commitment to delivering those values in a historically proprietary culture. I can imagine that this is not particularly easy work, and I commend them for their commitment, and Microsoft for their evolution as a company.
Open Source has had a profound impact on the world, and for a company with such a philosophically different history to commit staff and resources to exploring a more open future, well, I think this is a fantastic step forward for Microsoft, Open Source, and wider interoperability.
The Microsoft Open Technologies team will be celebrating on Thursday in Silicon Valley with their anniversary party. Be sure to head over there; unfortunately I am unable to join due to another commitment.
Congratulations, Microsoft Open Technologies!'
- Jono Bacon (
Source, April 23, 2013)</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
'The Maturing of Open: From Free to Interoperable' - Rob Enderl</blockquote>