Bruce Perens Quotes

United States, Programmer
October 24, 1957

Bruce Perens (born Oct 24, 1957) 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.

No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.

Bruce Perens
- Up
- Long
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.

Bruce Perens
- World
- Believe
- Police

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

Bruce Perens
- Marketing
It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Bruce Perens
- Mind
- Ego
- Awesome