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10-Year Anniversary of Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the corks-a-poppin dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Saturday is the 10-Year Anniversary of Open Source, the initiative to promote Free Software to business. Obviously, it's been incredibly successful. I've submitted a State of Open Source message discussing the anniversary of Open Source, its successes, and the challenges it will face in the upcoming decade."

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  1. Misleading use of capital letters by davidwr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's too bad English requires titles to have initial-capital letters in almost every word. It leads to confusion.

    While this may be the 10th anniversary of Open Source, it is not the 10th anniversary of open s.

    Open-source computer code has been around about as long as computers, and the equivalent to open source in other areas such as blueprints have been around since time immemorial.

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  2. Big deal by gwern · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I could care less about "Open Source"; it has done dubious good for us. Now, Free Software's anniversary I would care about quite a bit!

  3. Re:Surprised by Wealth! by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Informative

    Surprised by Wealth was Eric Raymond, not me. I wouldn't ever have written that, and Eric claims he lost all the money because he never sold the stock. Holy toledo. My biggest IPO was Pixar. I made a little money on various friends-and-family things from Linux companies. Wasn't involved in LinuxCare. :-)

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    Bruce Perens.
  4. Re:Correction: free software is the success by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Agreed. Stallman sees deeper than any of us and he should get much more credit than he does. Of course, he'd do without the credit and be happy if you'd just think about the importance of your freedom.

    That said, I remember just how little buy-in we had with business people then, because Richard was the wrong guy to promote to them. He doesn't have any empathy with them, this rapidly becomes clear if you discuss it with him. Yes, if we didn't do it, someone else would have. The world really was ready for it, that was clear in how fast it caught on.

    Thanks

    Bruce

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    Bruce Perens.
  5. Re:What? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Insightful
    No, my blog is technocrat.net . The link is to perens.com, a site with no ads.

    Yes, BSD had the source code and licensing, but no campaign to drive others to create such things. Stallman started that. I canonized the definition of what was, and what was not, Open Source. Raymond and I evangelized to business. Everybody in this picture is standing on other folks shoulders. I'd be the last to deny that.

    Bruce

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    Bruce Perens.