Bruce Perens
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Bruce Perens 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, the initial author of BusyBox, a 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 amateur radio enthusiast (callsign K6BP[1]) and maintains technocrat.net, which he styles 'a more mature forum than Slashdot'. He is also the founder of No Code International which is an organization whose primary purpose was to eliminate morse code proficiency as a requirement to obtain an amateur radio license. This goal has been reached with the new "code-free" rules introduced on February 23, 2007 [1].
Perens left OSI a year after co-founding it, with reasons explained in an email titled "It's Time to Talk About Free Software Again".
Since June 2005 he is an employee of SourceLabs.
Perens suffered from a speech impediment until 18 years of age, which was thought to be a mild form of congenital cerebral palsy.[2]
- Video:Bruce Perens video (file info) — Watch in browser
- Bruce Perens talking at the World Summit on the Information Society 2005 in Tunis. Subject: "Is Free/Open Source Software the Answer?" In case of problems, see media help.
[edit] References
- ^ FCC Universal Licensing System - K6BP.
- ^ Perens, Bruce (1996). My use of "brain-damage" as a metaphor. Mailing list archive of debian-user. Retrieved on March 16, 2006.
[edit] Documentary Appearance
[edit] External links
- Bruce Perens' homepage
- Project Proposal and Call for Participation: The Linux Standard Base
- Perens' Articles
- "It's Time to Talk About Free Software Again"
- Free Software Leaders Stand Together
- A speech given in Japan, June 2003
- Linux Link Tech Show interview (audio), 2006
- technocrat.net
- No Code International
| Preceded by Ian Murdock |
Debian Project Leader April 1996 – December 1997 |
Succeeded by Ian Jackson |
Rick Adams - Eric Allman - Brian Behlendorf - Keith Bostic - Alan Cox - Miguel de Icaza - Theo de Raadt - Jim Gettys - John Gilmore - Jon "maddog" Hall - Jordan Hubbard - Lynne and William Jolitz - Rasmus Lerdorf - Lawrence Lessig - Robert Love - Marshall Kirk McKusick - Eben Moglen - Tim O'Reilly - Keith Packard - Brian Paul - Bruce Perens - Eric S. Raymond - Bob Scheifler - Richard Stallman - Linus Torvalds - Andrew Tridgell - Guido van Rossum - Larry Wall
