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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:23 PM

Facebook Going Open Source

According Techcrunch, Facebook will be open-sourcing the four major components of the FB Platform—namely, FMBL (markup language), FQL (query language), FJS (Javascript library) and the Facebook API.   No mention yet of which license they will
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:45 PM

Office Binary Formats Released to the Public under Open Specification Promise

Finally what the open-source community has been asking from Microsoft has come to fruition, we've released the Office Binary Format in it's entirety and put it under our IRREVOCABLE, GPL-compatible, legally binding Open Specification Promise .  This
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:22 AM

Burton Group Responds to ODF Alliance's Critique

This is what I call a healthy and civilized debate unlike much of the garbage and FUD being released by the blogosphere and press. If you aren't aware, Burton Group recently released a document outlining the business implications of ODF vs. OpenXML Although
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:01 PM

Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:09 PM

OpenXML Debate with GNOME Foundation Live at 1pm (GMT -5)

I'm lazy today so I'll just copy an excerpt from Slashdot about something I will definitely be watching around open standards and file formats. lisah writes "Linux.com's Robin 'Roblimo' Miller will moderate a live debate today, Wednesday, December
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:28 AM

Connectors and Investing in Open Technologies

So I presented at Falkirk to an awesome audience about Search Server 2008 and had some interesting questions.  I've learned in my travels that geography plays a huge part in the sophistication of an audience.  Don't get me wrong, I am not insulting
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 3:20 PM

OneNote Web Exporter...*pst* It's Open Source

      Anyone who works with me knows that I'm a big OneNote fanatic!  Not only is it a great piece of software, it is a great development platform for ISVs.  One of the great things developers can do is tap into the OneNote API
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