Bruce Perens

Bruce Perens is a prominent figure in the open source movement and to some extent in the free software movement. He is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public Interest, founder and first project leader of the Linux Standard Base project, founder of the UserLinux project, and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Perens also has a book series with Prentice Hall PTR called the Bruce Perens Open Source Series. He is an avid ham radio enthusiast and maintains technocrat.net, which he styles a more mature forum than Slashdot .

Perens left OSI a year after co-founding it, with reasons explained in an email titled [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199902/msg01641.html It s Time to Talk About Free Software Again] .

Since June 2005 he is an employee of SourceLabs.

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*[http://perens.com/ Bruce Perens homepage] *[http://lwn.net/1998/0528/a/lsb.html PROJECT PROPOSAL AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: THE LINUX STANDARD BASE] *[http://www.perens.com/Articles/ Perens Articles] *[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01641.html It s Time to Talk About Free Software Again ] *[http://www.perens.com/Articles/StandTogether.html Free Software Leaders Stand Together] *[http://www.perens.com/Articles/JapanJune2003.txt A speech given in Japan, June 2003] *[http://www.technocrat.net technocrat.net]