Bruce Perens Quotations

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

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

The world is beating a path to our door

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.

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

Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.

Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.

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.

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.

Look at what we've achieved so far. We've just done such amazing things and not so long ago people told us it was impossible, but we've pulled it off.

There was a question as to whether we (open-source developers) could do user interfaces, and that's much less of a question now.

If Microsoft turns out to be the aggressor, that does not help. The pool unfortunately turns out to be spitting in the wind.

How they're going to pull it off will be interesting.