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Bruce Perens

(1949) Programmer United States

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Bruce Perens is a programmer from the United States, best known for Open sources.

Quick Facts About Bruce Perens

Born: November 30, 1949
Nationality: United States
Profession: Programmer
Notable works: Open sources

About Bruce Perens

Bruce Perens is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI) with Eric S. Raymond.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bruce Perens

No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.

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The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

Marketing

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The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is…

Around the world

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But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone…

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Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.

Ifs

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It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an…

Believe

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Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop…

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The world is beating a path to our door

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It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

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