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Bruce Perens Voted off SPI Board

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-time-for-the-important-things dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ComputerWorld is reporting that open source evangelist Bruce Perens has been ousted from the board of Software in the Public Interest. Even though he founded the organization he said it was time to move on, stating that he probably shouldn't have run but just couldn't let it go. It seems that for the time being Perens in content to focus on the truly important things, like watching his son grow and making time for his family. I just hope that he isn't gone for too long."

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  1. Re:You're Fired! by ThePhilips · · Score: 1, Redundant

    As if it was surprising. Advocating open standards is by no mean safe business... :-(

    Not that I was fired for such, but you really had to see that at least once - all "the disadvantages" of using open standards as they are depicted by sales and marketdroids: competitors can "steal" your business!!!

    Open source solves half of proprietary software problem. And Perens was one of the first who started working in direction of advertising open standards.

    Many products try to establish and distance themselves by implementing "unique" (read: "non-interoperable") features. FLOSS is no exception from the rule. Ego is what starts and drives development and ego is what hinders and kills the development.

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