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2008-11-18 12:00
Visit the OSADL booth at the SPS/IPC/Drives 2008 in Nuremberg, Germany
Meet OSADL member companies on our 200-sqm booth!
2008-11-10 12:00
"Immediate C" has arrays now
Version 1.124 of John E. Wulff's PLC-extension of the C language is now online
2008-11-07 12:00
OSADL Fieldbus Framework Meeting at the SPS/IPC/Drives 2008
Working group aiming towards a transparent, object-oriented fieldbus API
2008-10-07 12:00
OSADL Seminar on Software Patents and Open Source Licensing
Listen to the experts and discuss with them the implications of software patents on Open Source licensing and vice versa. |
Bruce Perens
- Bruce Perens
Leading Free Software and Open Source protagonist, self-employed, Berkeley, USA
Bruce Perens is a leader in the Free Software and Open Source community. He is creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of the Open Source movement in Software. He's founder or co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, The Linux Standard Base, Software in the Public Interest, and No-Code International. Perens released his first Free Software program, Electric Fence, in 1987. He is creator of Busybox, which has spawned its own development community and is part of many consumer devices.
Perens was vice president at Sourcelabs from 1995 to 1997.
Perens was series editor of the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series of books with Prentice Hall PTR publishers, which published 24 titles. Perens spent two years with HP as Senior Global Strategist for Linux and Open Source, and was president of Linux Capital Group, a venture fund that specialized in Linux.
Recommended reading
"The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source"
"State of Open Source Message: A New Decade For Open Source"
An international congress on Open Source software in the machine and automation industry was held in Hannover, Germany, on April 22, 2008. More information is available here.