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Perens Talks About Open Source Risk Management

Posted by Hemos on from the more-fun-then-roulette dept.

Big Sav writes "Here is a quick but good interview with Bruce Perens. It also raises the topic of indemnification vis a vis the SCO court case " Interesting interview - talks about Peren's new Open Source Risk Management company.

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  1. Extortion by NineNine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Reading about his "company" struck me as being extortionist. To me (a business owner), it sounds like "There are many problems with Open Source Software. Pay us, and we'll protect you from all of them. If you don't, well, you're fucked."

    Gee, whiz. I want nothing more than to start using wonderful OSS, now!!

    Either I need indemnification, or I don't. Which is it? If there's any question whatsoever, I'm gonna err on the side of caution and stick with proprietary code.

    For a blow-hard, do-nothing media whore, Perens sure can fuck things up.