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Big data and the big privacy problem

If privacy is dead (as a number of technology executives in whose interest it is for us not to care about privacy have... Read more

1 May, 2011

Microsoft founds and funds open-source forum

...what Microsoft calls commercial software. The foundation's interim president will be Sam Ramji, currently senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft. Ramji's departure... Read more

11 September, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Novell fellow leads Microsoft's Linux embrace

...it. It just took a while to hash out all the details." Sam Ramji, Microsoft's platform strategy director, credited Kroah-Hartman for helping guide... Read more

23 July, 2009 by Ina Fried

Microsoft allows GPL

...kind and for any purpose using these specifications, including commercial use", says Sam Ramji. Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy. Groklaw has the text... Read more

28 July, 2008

Microsoft funds Apache

...staff so that ASF developers can focus on writing great software," said Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft. He announced the move... Read more

28 July, 2008 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft wants WAMP not LAMP?

...collateral. Over at ZDNet.com, Mary Jo Foley has been talking to Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s director of platform technology atrategy - and director of its... Read more

5 February, 2008

Firefox welcomes Microsoft's offer of help

...on Saturday when the director of the company's open source lab, Sam Ramji, posted an open letter to a newsgroup used by Mozilla developers... Read more

24 August, 2006 by Colin Barker

Microsoft's thrilling change of heart

...courts most recently finding the company guilty of further malpractice. So when Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Labs, talks of "the... Read more

22 August, 2006 by Leader

Microsoft offers to help Firefox into Vista

...Mozilla and the open source community will respond positively to the gesture. Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's open source software lab, posted an open... Read more

22 August, 2006 by Colin Barker

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knapper

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Burn-IT

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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UnderINK

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

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apexwm

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