Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens
Bruce Perensis an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the Open Source Initiativewith Eric S. Raymond...
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doors path world
The world is beating a path to our door
marketing source process
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
ego mind ifs
It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
believe police world
It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.
Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.
rubies enabling steps
Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.
past years different
But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.
less question user whether
There was a question as to whether we (open-source developers) could do user interfaces, and that's much less of a question now.
running long care
No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.
world information different
The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.