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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by csans-cstrip »

outintospace wrote: post #64

Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right place at the right time, literally. I want to point out that, while I (along with Scott Hanselman) made the Comic Chat open source release ha…

Thanks for this. I love the work that individuals have been putting into open sourcing historical Microsoft products.

I notice there are two (identical) copies of the Comic Sans .ttf in the repo; are they also covered by the terms of the MIT license?

According to “otfinfo -i”, they’re an older version than the one typically packaged on Linux (https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts...). Do you think you could swing an official release of the latest and/or historical versions of Comic Sans under MIT or another appropriate license like SIL OFL?

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by brcmthrowaway »

outintospace wrote: post #115
98codes wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a team (part of engineering, not sales) that helps companies that bought M365 Copilot and/or Copilot Studio use it well - http://aka.ms/whoiscat

Thanks for sharing the link. I built that site. :)

So, do you love Copilot?

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by DonHopkins »

9dev wrote: post #175
9dev wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I take that comic a bit personal, to be honest - I just returned from a two-month odyssey to find a way of offering our customers a simple way of connecting our MCP Server to their Copilot Chat. Digging through a mindboggling number of documentation that was often outdated, sometimes contradictory, but always written both verbose and yet very light on information was part of that; talking to broken AI chatbots and cl…

…and it's also entirely in character of you representing Microsoft to not reply to my comment :-)

…and it's also entirely in character of you representing yourself to reply to your own comment :-)

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by superkuh »

kylemaxwell wrote: post #112
superkuh wrote: post #7

Microsoft Comic Chat was my first introduction to IRC. I was just a kid poking around in system32 directory and found mschat.exe. It opened a whole new world. I still participate in IRC communities to this day. I regularly reference it. So it's a shame that microsoft is blocking non-corporate browsers from accessing this news release, "The request is blocked. 20260716T162640Z-r17d8486fc4rbjkdhC1CHI16pc00000008m000000…

URL works fine for me using Safari on a non-corporate Mac. You may have jumped to conclusions a little precipitously.

Eh? I think you've misunderstood. I said corporate browsers do work. Safari is very much a corporate browser developed and owned exclusively by Apple corporation.

But yeah, until it happens to themselves people generally don't believe anyone else's lived experience and react very negatively to it.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by flumpcakes »

DonHopkins wrote: post #181
markun wrote: post #104

When somebody inevitably LLM this to rust/zig/bling/zork/vupt; please drop a link!

I'm afraid Zig passed its shelf life and self immolated. Zig's creator can't stop himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAjNWanR3n8

That video is embarrassing. Theo clearly doesn't know what he is talking about at points, and is having a massive crash out for really no reason.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by timbroddin »

outintospace wrote: post #64

Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right place at the right time, literally. I want to point out that, while I (along with Scott Hanselman) made the Comic Chat open source release ha…

Thanks so much for this! This really brought some nostalgic tears in my eyes.

I asked Fable to create a Mac port this weekend: - https://github.com/TimBroddin/comic-chat-macos - Write-up: https://broddin.be/bringing-microsoft-comic-chat-to-the-mac-...

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