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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Perens out

"Open Source" guru Bruce Perens has parted company with Hewlett-Packard, where he worked to promote Linux. Perens wrote the Open Source Definition, by which Free Software (as in Free Software Foundation) was renamed to make it more acceptable to Big Business. (The "open source" definiton allows the ignorant to think that software is "open source" if the source code is available, as opposed to the "free software" definition, which allows the ignorant to think you can't charge for it.)

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