Bruce Perens ↔ Open Source Initiative

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Bruce Perens is a co-founder of the Open Source Initiative [1], [2] and authored 'The Open Source Definition', which serves as a foundational document for the organization [3], [4].

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Open-source license - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 1 fact

claimThe Open Source Initiative (OSI), founded by free-software developers Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, used the term 'open source' to emphasize the strengths of the open development model rather than software freedoms.

Open-source software - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 1 fact

claimBruce Perens authored 'The Open Source Definition', which serves as a foundational document for the Open Source Initiative's definition of open source software.

Open-source hardware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia smoothieware.github.io Smoothieware 1 fact

accountBruce Perens, creator of the Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, started the first hardware-focused open source activities around 1997.

Free and open-source software - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 1 fact

accountThe Open Source Initiative (OSI) was founded in 1998 by a group of developers including Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Tim O'Reilly, and Linus Torvalds to promote the term 'Open Source' and emphasize collaborative development benefits over ideology.