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    Bruce Perens (born around 1958) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created The Open Source Definition and...
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    original author Bruce Perens and maintainer Dave Cinege, were represented in these actions or party to the settlements. On December 15, 2009, Perens released...
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  • version of the Debian Social Contract in July 1997. The primary author was Bruce Perens, with input from the Debian developers during a month-long discussion...
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  • From November 2015 until his death, Murdock worked for Docker, Inc. Bruce Perens is an American computer programmer, an advocate of the free software...
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    lock-in". Perens drafted a set of open-source guidelines, which were adopted by the OSI as the Open Source Definition. In January 2020, Perens left OSI...
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    case, Buzz Lightyear. By this time, Bruce Perens had taken over leadership of the Project from Ian Murdock, and Bruce was working at Pixar, the company...
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  • "open standard", as measured by Google ranking, is the one developed by Bruce Perens. His definition lists a set of principles that he believes must be met...
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  • The Bruce Perens' Open Source Series was a series of books edited by Bruce Perens as series editor and published by Prentice Hall PTR. Principal topics...
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    was already an essential part of Debian. In 1996, Bruce Perens assumed the project leadership. Perens was a controversial leader, regarded as authoritarian...
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    Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens. Perens did not base his writing on the Four Essential Freedoms of free software...
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    hardware-focused "open source" activities were started around 1997 by Bruce Perens, creator of the Open Source Definition, co-founder of the Open Source...
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  • Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf. The film begins with glimpses of Raymond, a Linux IPO, Torvalds, the idea of Open Source, Perens, Stallman...
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    the free software community, Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI). At Debian, Perens had proposed the Debian Free...
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    mathematician Bruce Lerman, American cardiologist Bruce Perens, computer programmer, open source founder Bruce Schneier (born 1963), cryptographer, computer...
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  • software without its source code is highly impractical. In July 1997, Bruce Perens published the Debian Free Software Guidelines. A definition based on...
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    The steering committee was Marc Ewing, Dion Johnson, Evan Leibovitch, Bruce Perens, Andrew Roach, Bryan Wayne Sparks and Linus Torvalds. Other people on...
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  • encode speech of similar quality, created by David Rowe and lobbied by Bruce Perens. Codec2 still continues to evolve, with additional "modes" being developed...
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  • is a document published by the Open Source Initiative. Derived from Bruce Perens' Debian Free Software Guidelines, the definition is the most common standard...
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    the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Perens. Perens did not base his writing on the "four freedoms" from the Free Software...
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  • Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens. Perens did not base his writing on the four freedoms of free software from...
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    Debian project, Thomas Bushnell, Nathanael Nerode, and Bruce Perens have raised objections. Bruce Perens saw the GFDL even outside the "Free Software ethos":...
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  • would supplement Debian's initial manifesto written by Ian Murdock. Bruce Perens later led the effort from June 1997 to coordinate the creation of the...
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    New creation Founding of Debian Project Debian Project Leader August 1993 – March 1996 Succeeded by Bruce Perens...
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  • was published under the Open Publication License. Bruce Perens used the license for the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series of books. The Linux Gazette used...
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  • certifications, service, and support options. The project was initiated by Bruce Perens in late 2003. Subsequent to 2005 and the major success of Ubuntu, a commercial...
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    codenames from Toy Story characters, the tradition of which came about as Bruce Perens was involved in the early development of Debian while working at Pixar...
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  • Source Initiative (OSI) was founded in February 1998 by Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens to promote the term "open-source software" as an alternative term for...
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  • preference or mandate". According to many Free Software advocates such as Bruce Perens, Microsoft founded ISC in reaction to the call for the adoption of Free...
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    Modality of Economic Production, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114, 273-358 (PDF) Bruce Perens (2005). "The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source". Retrieved October...
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  • movement include Richard Stallman, Alan Cox, Jimmy Wales and Eben Moglen. Bruce Perens is a prominent figure who works to promote both terms. There are even...
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