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Bruce Perens Aims For OSI Executive

Posted by kdawson on from the board-games dept.

mutube writes "Open Source advocate Bruce Perens began petitioning for support in election to the OSI Executive Board. Because it's a self-electing board, demonstrable community support is needed to attain a seat. Perens is standing on a platform of reducing over-representation of vendors in OSI leadership in favor of developers. In his petition notice, Perens suggests that recent Open Source involvement by Microsoft could lead to their being offered a place on the board. With his background fighting SCO and the Novell-Microsoft patent agreements, Perens would be a good counter-balance."

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  1. Re:Want to discuss this with me directly? by AresTheImpaler · · Score: 3, Funny

    SWEEEET, I now have parens' phone number! I'm going to show it off to all my friends!!! zomg! ;)

  2. Re:Want to discuss this with me directly? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Funny
    SWEEEET, I now have parens' phone number! I'm going to show it off to all my friends!!! zomg! ;)

    I'm already married :-)

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  3. Re:Want to discuss this with me directly? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoa, that's the exact same number this hot chick gave me at the bar last night. Dammit, I KNEW it was fake. Either that or I had the worst case of beer goggles in history.

  4. Re:BusyBox Funding? by .Bruce+Perens · · Score: 0, Funny

    Well, lawyers deal in theory, most of us here on slashdot are in the trenches dealing with the reality of it on a day to day basis. And if you truly believe that money should be the barrier standing between our beliefs and what truly should be a part of our lifestyles, well then I feel sorry for you. One of the benefits of living in America is the ability to live our lives however we choose, without government interference and hopefully without social oppression.

    Wait a minute. Oh, you said homoeopathic copyright, not homerotic. I don't know anything about that. My bad.

    --

    Thanks,
    Bruce
  5. Re:Fighting Microsoft at OSI. by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the internets, Dextrocardia is believed to occur in approximately 1 in 100 people.

    Your 99% figure for MSFT therefore has a ring of truth, if not truthiness.

    --
    "Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
  6. Re:Please sign the petition by Chapter80 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please sign here.
    I'm deaf, you insensitive clod.

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

  7. Re:Want to discuss this with me directly? by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm already married :-)

    And even if you weren't, I'm guessing "Ares the Impaler" would not be high on your list of candidates.

  8. Re:Fighting Microsoft at OSI. by mdemonic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Parent is not Bruce Perens. its .Bruce Perens.

    note the period at the beginning of the name...

    Maybe he's hidden