Open Source Efforts at Milestone

Even before I founded Milestone Technology Group, LLC, I was, and still am, a proponent of open source software, and often looked there first when architecting business solutions.  Because of this, open source is very much part of the Milestone's culture.  It would be hypocritical to say we're a proponent and not also provide back to the open source community.  So in my spare time, and under the umbrella of Milestone, I've started putting together some open source projects and pushing them out to the community via my account on sourceforge.net.  These projects will also be available from Milestone's web site in the near future.

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