Open Source Automation Development Lab
2010-03-17 - 08:11

Next OSADL Events:

Hannover Fair 2010
19.04 - 23.04

Breaking News:

2010-03-10 12:00

Parallel real-time on multi-core systems with mainline Linux

Several tasks simultaneously running at real-time priority no longer interfere to each other!


2010-02-22 12:00

"Latest Stable" Linux mainline real-time 2.6.31 is out!

Kernel 2.6.31.12-rt21 is our latest and greatest


2010-02-21 12:00

OSADL at the Embedded World 2010

Industry needs Open Source - Open Source meets Industry


2010-02-08 12:00

Prof Eben Moglen on "GNU GPL Version 3: The Law Making Process"

International Conference on Commons, Users, Service Providers Internet (Self-)Regulation and Copyright


2009-11-23 12:00

Added a new HOWTO to the OSADL Website: Use BuildRoot to create a Linux image for QEMU

Guest Editor Bogdan Cristea tells us about rapid prototyping of an embedded system using virtualization



Bruce Perens

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"


"Open Source meets Industry"

"Open Source meets Industry" Congress on Open Source Software in the machine and automation industry

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.