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Bruce Perens: A Big Change for Open Source Linux Today Fri, 10/03/2008 - 19:03 Datamation: "The man who prompted that decision could be described as the worst enemy a Free Software project could have. This is the story of how our community was able to benefit from that enemy."

Bruce Perens creator of the Open Source Definition and the founder of OSI (Open Source Initiative), sets his view on the surprising decision of Microsoft to support a major open source and one of the biggest competitor of their IIS server

Datamation: "For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor...Has Redmond given up the fight? Or is this just their latest strategy?"

You may or may not have heard that Microsoft recently sponsored the Apache Foundation, to the tune of $100,000 a year. While I’d love to believe that Microsoft is finally changing its tune on the open source development model and actually honestly trying to promote interoperability, it seems I am not the only one with cynical and sceptical views on Microsoft’s real agenda.

A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation . Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an ...

Bruce Perens writes "Red Hat has settled patent suits with Firestar Software, Inc., Amphion, and Datatern on a patent covering the Object-Relational Database Model, which those companies asserted was used in the jBoss Hibernate package — not in Red Hat Linux.

Given the role the Open Source Initiative plays in protecting the open source brand and reviewing and approving licenses as conforming with the Open Source Definition, it is somewhat surprising how little interest there has been in the recent election of the OSI board.

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The state of open source: Bruce Perens, Open Source Definition http://www.computerworld.com.au – Bruce Perens, a longtime leader in the open source movement, is rarely remiss in speaking his mind on open source matters.

eWeek recently took at look at the top 15 open source business influencers, which includes the usual suspects like Linus Torvalds and Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin. It also named some people that typically get overlooked, like Bank of America's Tim Golden who "worked exclusively with Linux and