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XML Formats Technical Interest
For those of you with interest in the tech side of the XML-based file format discussion, I'd...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/17/2006
Commercial Intent
A point I have made often in my blog over the past year and a half is about the commercial...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/16/2006
Customer Demand
I know that Tim Bray has recently suggested that I am in la la land and spewing various forms of...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/15/2006
Open Format Ecosystems
Part 2 in the series: Ecosystems Based On Open Formats Another important issue that keeps surfacing...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/14/2006
Interesting Article
A good editorial from the San Jose Mercury News. San Jose Mercury News Too much tech regulation...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/11/2006
Interoperability - Four Points
Part 1 in the series: Interoperability Let's start with the real issue at hand - interoperability....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/11/2006
On The Road Again
Next week I will be on the road talking to editors, analysts, and leading thinkers in the industry...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/10/2006
Product Competition Driving File Format Debate
In the past few days, the rhetoric on both sides of the file format debate seems to have heated up....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/09/2006
Standards Panel at OSBC
Back to blogging. Too easy to get wrapped up in work and home and not put in the time for the blog....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 02/23/2006
Windows Template Library 7.5 Release
This is from my old world in Shared Source. Great news from Nenad Stefanovic, the project lead for...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 12/09/2005
Open...again
I have been partaking in an academic-style event on standards here in Vancouver B.C. this week. So...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 12/07/2005
Standards 101
After almost 15 years in the software business and 10+ at Microsoft I have worked on numerous...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 12/05/2005
And Now, For My Next Act....
Years ago, it was suggested that there was a civil war in Microsoft based on open source. There...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 12/02/2005
Office Docs and Open
Today Microsoft announced the intent to submit the Office "12" XML file formats to Ecma...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/21/2005
Dynamic...Static...hmmm
Updated the post - the link to the pictures at the end should be fixed. (That's what you get for...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/13/2005
Wild World of Slashdot
My OSBC keynote seems to have kicked off an interesting discussion on Slashdot. Overall the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/08/2005
New Shared Source Release - MBS Solomon
Once again my friend Matt Asay is putting on a strong show at OSBC East. The OSBC conferences have...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 11/02/2005
New Shared Source Releases
In conjunction with the news today about the licenses - we are also announcing the availability of 8...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/19/2005
Shared Source Licensing
UPDATE - I'm adding some good blog discussions below based on this news. Open source licenses are...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/19/2005
Windows Template Library
The project leader for the Windows Template Library project up on SourceForge dropped me a note the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 10/18/2005
JBoss and Microsoft - Competitive Interop
A solid piece of work has been put into motion today by Microsoft and JBoss. Competitive...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/27/2005
Monster Blackberry
You have to be a resident of Oregon to understand true mania for berries. I know the Swedes love...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/21/2005
The Role of the OSI
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols expressed his desire to see fewer OSI-approved licenses a couple of days...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/15/2005
Micrix, or is it Micrux?
Bill Thompson, a technology analyst for the BBC, has an intelligent and entertaining column, and I...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/14/2005
OSS and Integration...again
Stephen O'Grady posted a great response to my earlier posting on integration issues for OSS...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/08/2005
Mambo Jumbo - OSS Community vs. Commercial
Here is the article that got me thinking today. The community of devs working on Mambo have split...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/02/2005
Back In The Blog Chair
Summer has been hard on my blogging. The sun seems to draw me away from my laptop and onto my...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 09/01/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 Providers Toolkit
So it has been a long while since I last blogged. I have been buried under a project and am just now...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 08/02/2005
Shared Source Licenses and Commercial Intent
In his comment to my last posting Wesley Parish pointed out something worth talking about. "One...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/06/2005
Shared Source - More Dev Toys
There are groups all over Microsoft that are posting source for interesting little bits and pieces....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 06/02/2005
Innovation As A Cure For The Dilemma
Last week I hosted the guys from Redmonk, Stephen OGrady and James Governor. Other than noting...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/27/2005
Bluetooth Wrapper
During my blogging hiatus in May there was a cool release from our embedded folks. Here is the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/26/2005
WiX - heading towards 150K
Kudos to Rob Mensching and his great Shared Source project, Windows Installer XML - otherwise known...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/26/2005
Visual Basic Power Pack - Shared Source Licensed Stuff
Here is the Visual Basic Power Pack which consists of seven custom controls written in Visual Basic...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/24/2005
Microsoft Developer Powertoys - Shared Source Licensed Stuff
I've been meaning to blog this for a while. Josh Ledgard has been doing some great work with the...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 05/24/2005
Shared Source - Microsoft Research Downloads
I recently became aware of a bunch of Shared Source licensed projects that are available through...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 04/25/2005
Availability and Ownership
I’m on the road in Asia this week and am having some great conversations about source licensing...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 04/25/2005
Open Source Testing: The Next Fad
Last week I spent two very worthwhile days in San Francisco at the Open Source Business Conference....
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 04/12/2005
IronPython Q and A
Over the past week there have been a few common questions about the IronPython Shared Source license...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 04/05/2005
IronPython - response to comments
I've had a few inquiries on the relationship of IronPython to Mono. Technically, IronPython is...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/28/2005
IronPython
At PyCon (a conference for Python developers) last week, Microsoft made an announcement regarding...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/28/2005
Shared Source Programs and EU Member States
In Eastern Europe today, we announced the expansion of the Windows and Windows CE Premium Shared...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/21/2005
Shared Source - More than Windows.
Thanks for the feedback on the first posting with meat on the bones. I’m moderating the comments in...
Author: jasonmatusow Date: 03/14/2005