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Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-ahead-and-ask dept.

Bruce Perens is a computer programmer and one of the most important advocates for the open source community. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative with ESR and has worked towards reforms of national and international technology policies. He is an amateur radio enthusiast, and has pushed for open radio communication standards. He is also our interview guest today. As usual, ask as many questions as you'd like, but please, one per post.

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  1. Unbalanced by Hentai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you please convince ESR to change his name to Eric CloseParens? It's been bugging me for like, decades.

    --
    -Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
  2. Er...what's left in "open source" to talk about? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Having lived through the entire lifecycle of "open source," it seems like its place in development communities and businesses is well-established, with a mix of different licensing and deployment models for whatever anyone wants to do.

    So...is there really anything interesting left in "open source" to talk about? (Software patents, maybe, but even that's picked up some case law.)