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				2023-11-12 12:00
				 Open Source License Obligations Checklists even better now  Import the checklists to other tools, create context diffs and merged lists 
				2022-07-11 12:00
				 Call for participation in phase #4 of Open Source OPC UA open62541 support project  Letter of Intent fulfills wish list from recent survey 
				2022-01-13 12:00
				 Phase #3 of OSADL project on OPC UA PubSub over TSN successfully completed  Another important milestone on the way to interoperable Open Source real-time Ethernet has been reached 
				2021-02-09 12:00
				 Open Source OPC UA PubSub over TSN project phase #3 launched  Letter of Intent with call for participation is now available | 
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"
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.









