November 2024
Intermediate to advanced
54 pages
1h 7m
English
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Chapter 1. Microsoft and Open Source
The open source movement has fueled all kinds of innovations during the last three decades, all around the world. From operating systems and artificial intelligence (AI) to containerization and software development, the open source communities are amazing nodes of collaboration, talent, and robust solutions.
Currently, open source software (OSS) is becoming one of the key enablers of wide and quick adoption in times of AI innovation. Organizations are opening their developments to the community as a mechanism to share advanced technologies, leverage both internal and external talent, and raise the standard to compete with other industry products.
Microsoft is not only one of the most relevant contributors to the different open source communities and foundations (in the top three, based on the Open Source Contributor Index), but also a key actor that promotes and leverages open source–enabled solutions. All these initiatives are aligned with their Microsoft Open Source initiative and Open Source Programs Office (OSPO). Let’s see the origins of this open source wave.
The Modern Era of Open Source: From Linux to AI
The open source community has come a very long way. With some initial steps in the 1980s (e.g., GNU Project and Free Software Foundation), the term open source was first coined in the 1990s as a way to describe a development approach that promotes access to the code such that other people and companies can reuse it for noncommercial ...
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