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Open source stirs up trouble for Novell
News Richard Stallman may not have been at Novell's BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, but with some help from his friend Bruce Perens he was determined to lodge his objections to Novell's controversial deal with Microsoft.
[March 21, 2007, 16:41]
UserLinux releases beta CD
News The project, which is led by open-source advocate Bruce Perens, aims to give businesses a high quality Linux operating system that is accompanied by certifications and support options, but without the price and licensing policies associated with...
[September 10, 2004, 16:05]
Open-source guru backs off DVD hack speech
News Like other researchers who've backed down for fears of Hollywood reprisals, open-source guru Bruce Perens said he would not include details about how to circumvent DVD player controls in a presentation on Friday.
[July 29, 2002, 9:41]
Open-source advocate leaves HP
News Open-source advocate Bruce Perens has left Hewlett-Packard, after spending two years at the computer giant. Perens announced his departure on his Web site. Neither Perens nor HP officials could immediately be reached for comment.
[September 9, 2002, 12:36]
Perens pushes for open source domain parking
News Open source advocate Bruce Perens has launched an initiative to discourage owners of undeveloped Web domains hosting them on servers running proprietary software. Perens wants domain owners and resellers to redirect unused Web domains — which have...
[April 18, 2006, 17:35]
Open-source leaders: 'We are accountable'
News Open-source software leaders Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens have fired back at the SCO Group, disputing the company's latest swipe at Linux and the open-source development method. Raymond and Perens, director of Software in the Public Interest, an...
[September 11, 2003, 11:30]
Dustup hits desktop Linux conference
News News site DesktopLinux.com had been a sponsor, and open-source advocate Bruce Perens was scheduled to deliver the show's opening keynote speech. Perens, whose influence reaches widely into the computing industry, said he's told Robertson he's no...
[January 20, 2003, 7:35]
SCO issues warning to open-source vigilantes
Talkback The following link is to the actual article in which Bruce Perens discusses the SGI code that Darl McBride references in your article.http://au.news.yahoo.com/030826/20/lfff.html If you read this article you will find that Darl's comments are at...
[September 9, 2003, 13:39]
HP hires Linux luminary
News Adopting a strategy made popular by more radical companies, Hewlett-Packard has hired open source advocate Bruce Perens to give the company a deeper view of the workings of Linux and other open source software.
[December 5, 2000, 14:26]
Free-software gadfly takes on Net group
News That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, with like-minded members in advance of the group's spring meeting in San Francisco.
[November 25, 2002, 14:52]
Linux is dead, long live Linux
News Dell Computer and other industry giants may be pessimistic about Linux's chances on the desktop, but HP executive and Linux veteran Bruce Perens believes the open source OS will still triumph in the end.
[May 25, 2001, 17:03]
Book publisher adopts open-source idea
News Six books will be released this year with the Bruce Perens Open Source Series moniker, said Mark Taub, an editor-in-chief within Prentice Hall. The series bears the name of Perens, the primary author of the Open Source Definition and an outspoken...
[January 17, 2003, 8:57]
Desktop row threatens unified Linux effort
News Open-source guru Bruce Perens earlier this month began fleshing out a plan to offer businesses a standardised Linux distribution that would be free from the fees attached to the best-known distributions, such as Red Hat Advanced Server.
[December 19, 2003, 16:45]
Corporates to get taste of free Linux
News Beta 1 will be released on 1 September," said UserLinux founder and open-source advocate Bruce Perens in a talk at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. But progress in another key area -- getting software partners to certify their products to work...
[August 6, 2004, 15:25]
Microsoft patents may threaten open source
News Leading the charge is Bruce Perens, Hewlett-Packard's open-source and Linux strategist who helped to craft the Debian Social Contract, which later became the Open Source Definition. If we don't get that agreement, I'll be happy to see Ximian...
[August 29, 2001, 9:14]
Open-source experts deride SCO's 'evidence'
News The slides then came under the full scrutiny of Linux advocates, with one, former Hewlett-Packard open-source strategist Bruce Perens, publishing a damning analysis online. Perens claims the code can be traced to AT&T, which developed the Unix code...
[August 20, 2003, 9:00]
Open source comes of age
News Nowadays, these kinds of problems are confronting not just programmers, but society as a whole, according to long-time open source advocate Bruce Perens. For more, click here.the freedom to do it," says Perens.
[March 13, 2006, 17:10]
Royalty-free options reach OASIS
News I'm pleased that royalty-free is at least an option, but would be more comfortable if it was the default," said Bruce Perens, a prominent open source advocate. Perens urged fellow open source advocates to take advantage of the new OASIS policy to...
[February 11, 2005, 9:55]
Microsoft quashes rumours of dual-boot XO laptop
News Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens claimed that Microsoft was seeking to undermine Linux in an emerging market. It's a threat Microsoft can't let stand: the entire Third World learning Linux as children, and growing up to use it...
[January 11, 2008, 13:04]
Patent holders on the ropes
News But one prominent patent opponent, Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens, said he plans to recruit enough free-software advocates to join the IETF working group to tip the balance away from patent holders.
[December 3, 2002, 10:31]
