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                        Open.<br />
                        Collaborative.<br />
                        Flexible.
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                        Open Source enables Microsoft products and services to 
                        bring choice, technology and community to our customers.
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                        <a class="link-arrow text-white mt-4" href="{{ '/projects' | relative_url }}">Explore projects</a>
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                Some of the most popular developer tools, frameworks and experiences in the world
                are built around open communities. Here are a few featured Microsoft projects of note.
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                    <h3 class="h3">Open</h3>
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                        Working in the open is the secret sauce. Microsoft engineers work
                        to adopt industry-standard technologies, work in the open, support
                        a diversity of technologies and platforms, and
                        contribute upstream as often as possible.
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                       With participation from around the world, new perspectives
                       are discovered, passionate users are able to dig in, and a special
                       connection exists between upstream projects, maintainers, and all open
                       source projects.
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                        Open source makes amazing business sense: industry-standard open
                        technologies are super flexible: easy to adopt, attract leading
                        talent that's familiar, and provides an opportunity to rapidly
                        innovate and deliver value tailored to specific needs, building
                        on the work of others.
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                    The open source ecosystem we support
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                    <span class="h5">Microsoft's communities</span>
                    <span class="h2">Get involved</span>
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                    We are building value together and welcome everyone to
                    participate. Together, in the open, it's an exciting
                    time to use technology to build hacks, apps, and services.
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                    <span class="h5">Learn from our enterprise-scale approach</span>
                    <span class="h2">Our program &amp; tools</span>
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                    We have worked to develop a strong open source program over the past decade, making
                    it easy for every team at Microsoft to choose to use, contribute to, and release open
                    source software.
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                    Many of our tools and approaches are available for you to learn from, too.
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                    <a class="link-arrow" href="{{ '/program/#program-tools' | relative_url }}">Our tools</a><br />
                    <a class="link-arrow" href="{{ '/ecosystem/' | relative_url }}">The ecosystem we support</a>
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                <h3 class="h5 text-brand font-weight-600 mb-2">Innovate faster and more securely with open source on Azure</h3>
                <p>Build on a highly secure cloud platform designed to protect your data and business assets, including proactive, comprehensive compliance coverage.  Gain the flexibility to move your app anywhere. Operate seamlessly and elastically, on-premises, in hybrid or multicloud environments, or at the edge.</p>
                <div class="link-arrow-external mt-4"><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/open-source/#overview">Learn more about open source on Azure</a></div>
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                        We welcome you to our open communities. Please check out
                        our Code of Conduct and one-time Contributor License Agreement
                        to help us all participate with care.
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