1. Industrial Research and Open Source – Reasons and
Judith Bishop and Arun Kalyanasundaram
Microsoft Research

2. OSS is a development methodology
Users as developers
Early release
Frequent
integration
Several versions
High modularity
Dynamic decision making

3. OSS is a Licensing Model
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OSS is a Licensing Model
License Approved by Open Source Initiative (OSI)
Right to Copy, Modify and Redistribute
No Representations or Warranties
Redistribution triggers certain licensing obligations
Development
Subset
License Model
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4. Aspects of Open Source At different times, and with various products,
industrial companies
Create and open source software
Use open source software, under license
Contribute to open source software
Repositories
Creators
Users
Contributors

5. Python is open source software inside Visual Studio
Code edition of VS is on MacOS, Linux and free to students
Visual Studio contains 150 licenses to open source software

6. Open source at Microsoft Research
A growing trend since 2014
Now have 50+ projects with 40+ researchers backing
Projects aimed at academia, developers, Microsoft products
Challenges
Solutions
Potential users cannot find projects
Portal with classified projects
Difficulty accessing code
Moving projects to GitHub for uniformity

7. What Microsoft Research offers
Tools for specialized domains
Connections to researchers
Project Directory Categories
Verification
Cryptography
Visualization
Programming
Cloud Computing
Education
Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Systems
Science
Documents
Society

8. The Portal at research.microsoft.com/opensource
Industrial Research and Open Source – Reasons and

9. Why Open-Source *Projects had more than one motivation July 22, 2012
Distinguished Lecture, UC Irvine, February 2016

10. Unforseen Benefits of Open-Source
Improve Portability
(Cross-Platform)
Improve Usability
Community Driven
(A few projects are maintained by the community)
Increase adoption
Self-Document
July 22, 2012
Distinguished Lecture, UC Irvine, February 2016

11. Number of Contributors vs Project Stage
LARGE
CONTRIBUTORS 
MEDIUJM
SMALL
New
Evolving
Stable Community
Winding Down
Inactive
Project Stage 
July 22, 2012
Distinguished Lecture, UC Irvine, February 2016

12. Number of Users vs Project Stage
LARGE
USER BASE 
MEDIUJM
SMALL
New
Evolving
Stable Community
Winding Down
Inactive
Project Stage 
July 22, 2012
Distinguished Lecture, UC Irvine, February 2016

13. Status of Projects Using Github Data
Microsoft (MS) and Outside MS contributions depend on the stage of the project.
(Analyzing Github Commit Data)
Non-MS contributions are lower
but MS contributors working hard
to build the community.
MS and Non-MS contributions
are almost equal
MS contributions reducing
but community taking over
*Sqrt scale helps better visualize the skewed data
July 22, 2012
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14. $15,000 in prizes, plus trips to Redmond and the chance for internships
Winners used DSSM, Microsoft Cognitive Services, Z3 and CNTK

15. Thank you!
research.microsoft.com/opensource

16. Why Open-Source (Actual Data)
Ease of Collaboration
Prevent project from dying
Increase trustworthiness
Get more Contributions
Involve the community from start
Serve the Community
Reproduce Results
Improve Quality
Increase adoption
Self-Document
Attract Developers
Faster turnaround
Make it more portable
Increase internal users
Request from users 1
IDD
Scientific Dataset
Madoko
CNTK
PXT Z3
DSSM
Orleans
Automata Toolkit
Chakra Core
.Net Core
WinApp Driver
MSAGL 2
Scalable Joins
.Net MF
SEAL
Document Translator
LEAN
RoomAlive
Ironclad F# 3 F*
Code Contracts
TPM
Typescript 4
Codalab 5 6
Roslyn 7
July 22, 2012
Distinguished Lecture, UC Irvine, February 2016

17. Open Source License Spectrum
Restrictive
ATTRIBUTION
BSD
MIT
Apache
WEAK COPYLEFT
MPL
EPL
CDDL
STRONG COPYLEFT
GPL
LGPL*
AGPL
Permissive

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