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As programme manager of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft,
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As programme manager of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft,
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5 April, 2010...report those kinds of comments. However one of his colleagues at Microsoft –
...to implement due to backwards compatibility considerations." Microsoft's director of standards,
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...is around communications. "There are three main focuses of the alliance," said
...intellectual property) that will not be so agreeable to various constituencies," wrote
...support interoperability with OpenDocument and not oppose its standardisation or use. However,
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11 April, 2006 by Martin LaMonica...ODF process there, we will not participate in the JTC1 process," said
...we too have seen the proliferation of source code licenses become problematic,"
...programs and 1.5 million developers involved, according to Shared Source director
...believes in a hybrid of open source and proprietary software. In addition,
...developer division are working on projects to make code available as well.
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