Open Source

Open Source

Microsoft and Open Source: An unofficial timeline

The profound cultural transformation towards open source did not happen overnight at Microsoft. This is an unofficial timeline of Microsoft's embrace of open source.

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The Myth and Promise of Open Source

When it comes to the legal foundations of open source, there is no spoon.

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Toxicity in Open Source

There is a very small but noisy contingent in open source that is far from open, responds with vitriolic hate to other viewpoints, engages in the worst forms of gatekeeping, and are generally very toxic people.

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Open Sourcing DAP: Legal Outreach Software

DAP was a project at my old law firm to provide outreach to consumers being sued by debt trolls. DAP was written in Python, used an SQLite Database, interacted with an IBM mainframe and two web APIs to send information to consumers.

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What is an indie open-source startup?

I often describe Whitewater Foundry, the corporate entity formed around Pengwin and our other products and services, as an indie open-source startup. What does this mean? Indie Pengwin is independent. We are not an upstream community project of a corporate-backed product. We do not accept venture capital funding or angel