Joint Development Foundation
Joint Development Foundation Projects (JDF) began because a corporate attorney had a recurring problem. David Rudin, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft, was tasked with helping his business partners set up multi-party agreements for source code and specifications projects. These efforts were taking years to negotiate and delaying work on deliverables because there weren’t a set of common terms and clauses everyone could rely on.
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- Category: nonprofit organization
- Website: https://jointdevelopment.org/
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- Email: support@jointdevelopment.org (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
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- Recorded profile date: 2026-04-23
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Joint Development Foundation Projects (JDF) began because a corporate attorney had a recurring problem. David Rudin, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft, was tasked with helping his business partners set up multi-party agreements for source code and specifications projects. These efforts were taking years to negotiate and delaying work on deliverables because there weren’t a set of common terms and clauses everyone could rely on.
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