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Father of Wiki Quits MS, Moves to Eclipse

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wonder-if-that's-a-paycut dept.

linumax writes "Microsoft has lost one of its high-profile hires to an open-source consortium. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, announced on Monday that Ward Cunningham is leaving Microsoft to join the staff of the open-source tool consortium. Cunningham's new title is Director of Committer Community Development.Cunningham, the father of the Wiki concept, joined Microsoft about two years ago. At Microsoft, he was not involved directly in social-networking-software development. Instead, Cunningham worked as an architect with the company's Patterns & Practices Team."

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  1. Good for Ward! by smithmc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, and FIRST POST!

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    1. Re:Good for Ward! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I like cookies!

  2. More about Cunnigham here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One may read more about Cunnigham here.

  3. Re:What Wikipedia has become by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    newsflash: youre a right wing dick

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