Several blogs are reporting on the highlights from Sam Ramji’s keynote at OSCON this morning. Sam announced several items of significance that will dramatically advance the work that Microsoft is already doing with the Open Source developer community. This is one of those posts where I’m probably better off quoting several others ...

Simple - through the Open Specification Promise every one of these runners has been independently and directly granted rights to use any intellectual property owned by Microsoft that they would need to implement or use OpenXML - irrevocably and in perpetuity. If any one of these runners are in any way uncomfortable with the OSP [...]