Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American programmer Bruce Perens.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Bruce Perens is 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 Initiative (OSI) with Eric S. Raymond. Today, he is a partner at OSS Capital.
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.
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.
Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.
The world is beating a path to our door
It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
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.
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.
Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time.
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