Bruce Perens was born on around 1958 and is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement.
48 Facts About Bruce Perens
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Bruce Perens created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source.
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Bruce Perens co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric S Raymond.
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In 2005, Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, at the invitation of the United Nations Development Programme.
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Bruce Perens has appeared before national legislatures and is often quoted in the press, advocating for open source and the reform of national and international technology policy.
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Bruce Perens is an amateur radio operator, with call sign K6BP.
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Bruce Perens promotes open radio communications standards and open-source hardware.
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In 2018 Bruce Perens founded the Open Research Institute, a non-profit research and development organization to address technologies involving Open Source, Open Hardware, Open Standards, Open Content, and Open Access to Research.
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In 2022 Bruce Perens founded Ham Open, a non-profit charity to fund Amateur Radio projects he has an interest in.
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Bruce Perens is a partner at OSS Capital, and continues to operate two companies: Algoram is a start-up which is creating a software-defined radio transceiver.
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Bruce Perens was born with cerebral palsy, which caused him to have slurred speech as a child, a condition that led to a misdiagnosis of him as developmentally disabled in school and led the school to fail to teach him to read.
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Bruce Perens developed an interest in technology at an early age: besides his interest in amateur radio, he ran a pirate radio station in the town of Lido Beach and briefly engaged in phone phreaking.
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Bruce Perens worked for seven years at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab.
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Bruce Perens is credited as a studio tools engineer on the Pixar films A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2.
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Bruce Perens founded No-Code International in 1998 with the goal of ending the Morse Code test then required for an amateur radio license.
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Bruce Perens's rationale was that amateur radio should be a tool for young people to learn advanced technology and networking, rather than something that preserved antiquity and required new hams to master outmoded technology before they were allowed on the air.
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Bruce Perens lobbied intensively on the Internet, at amateur radio events in the United States, and during visits to other nations.
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In 1997, Bruce Perens was carbon-copied on an email conversation between Donnie Barnes of Red Hat and Ean Schuessler, who was then working on Debian.
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Bruce Perens took this as inspiration to create a formal social contract for Debian.
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Bruce Perens proposed a draft of the Debian Social Contract to the Debian developers on the debian-private mailing list early in June 1997.
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Debian developers contributed discussion and changes for the rest of the month while Bruce Perens edited, and the completed document was then announced as Debian project policy.
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Bruce Perens modified the Debian Free Software Guidelines into the Open Source Definition by removing Debian references and replacing them with "Open Source".
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Bruce Perens left OSI in 1999, a year after co-founding it.
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Bruce Perens presently volunteers as the Open Source Initiative's representative to the European Technical Standards Institute, and is a frequent participant in review of license texts submitted to OSI for certification as Open Source licenses.
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In 1999, Bruce Perens left Pixar and became the president of Linux Capital Group, a business incubator and venture capital firm focusing on Linux-based businesses.
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In 2000, as a result of the economic downturn, Bruce Perens shut down Linux Capital Group.
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From December 2000 to September 2002, Bruce Perens served as "Senior Global Strategist for Linux and Open Source" at Hewlett-Packard, internally evangelizing for the use of Linux and other open-source software.
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Bruce Perens was fired as a result of his anti-Microsoft statements, which especially became an issue after HP acquired Compaq, a major manufacturer of Microsoft Windows-based PCs, in 2002.
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Bruce Perens was an employee of SourceLabs, a Seattle-based open source software and services company, from June 2005 until December 2007.
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Bruce Perens produced a video commercial, Impending Security Breach, for SourceLabs in 2007.
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Between 1981 and 1986, Bruce Perens was on the staff of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab as a Unix kernel programmer.
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In 2002, Bruce Perens was a remote Senior Scientist for Open Source with the Cyber Security Policy Laboratory of George Washington University under the direction of Tony Stanco.
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Between 2006 and 2007, Bruce Perens was a visiting lecturer and researcher for the University of Agder under a three-year grant from the Competence Fund of Southern Norway.
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In 2009, Perens acted as an expert witness on open source in the Jacobsen v Katzer US Federal lawsuit.
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Bruce Perens delivered one of the keynote addresses at the 2012 linux.
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Bruce Perens discussed the need for open source software to market itself better to non-technical users.
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Bruce Perens discussed some of the latest developments in open-source hardware, such as Papilio and Bus Pirate.
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In 2013, Bruce Perens spoke in South America, as the closing keynote at Latinoware 2013.
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Bruce Perens keynoted the Festival de Software Libre 2013, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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Bruce Perens discussed the future of open source licensing and the need to develop alternative licensing structures so that open source developers could get paid for their work.
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Bruce Perens poses "Open Source" as a means of marketing the free and open-source software idea to business people and mainstream who might be more interested in the practical benefits of an open source development model and ecosystem than abstract ethics.
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Bruce Perens postulated in 2004 an economic theory for business use of Open Source in his paper The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source and his speech Innovation Goes Public.
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In February 2008, for the 10th anniversary of the phrase "open source", Bruce Perens published a message to the community called "State of Open Source Message: A New Decade For Open Source".
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Bruce Perens advocated the use of the GPLv3 license, especially noting Linus Torvalds' refusal to switch away from GPLv2 for the Linux kernel.
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Bruce Perens supported Bernie Sanders for President and he claims that his experience with the open source movement influenced that decision.
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Bruce Perens is an avid amateur radio enthusiast and maintained technocrat.
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Bruce Perens is featured in the 2001 documentary film Revolution OS and the 2006 BBC television documentary The Code-Breakers.
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Bruce Perens lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, Valerie, and son, Stanley, born in 2000.