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Bruce Perens Mentions Papilio And Bus Pirate In Linux Keynote Speech

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hoppasaurus

(Jump to 39:04 on the vid to hear Bruce mention Dangerous Prototypes Bus Pirate, and to 41:04 when he talks about our Papilio!)

Open source guru Bruce Perens gave a keynote speech recently at the major 2012 Linux conference linux.conf.au just this past week in Ballarat, Australia.  If you’ve got an hour to spare, the whole video is certainly worth watching.  His topic in the video is The State Of Open Source, And Introducing Open Hardware.  This gentleman is on the cutting edge, folks.

For the uninitiated, here’s a bit of Bruce Perens’ backstory as a legendary open source advocate.  He singlehandedly forged the Open Source Definition, co-founded Open Source Initiative (OSI), and worked for 12 years at Pixar as a studio tools engineer.  He also started the Busybox project, which every embedded Linux system uses.  Perens is also a former Debian project leader.  Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License.  So, those are only some of his many accomplishments.  Feel free to read more of Mr. Perens here.

Bruce Perens has some major cred, to be sure.  From someone of this pedigree, we are genuinely honored to get a mention in his keynote speech.

Thanks, Bruce!  On the off chance you’re reading this, drop us a line sometime!   🙂

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  1. bruceperens Avatar
    bruceperens

    Thanks! I’ve mentioned Papilio at several ham radio events as well.

    I have the new issue of Open Hardware Journal up, at
    http://openhardware.org/journal/2012/02/

    Please consider writing an article for the next issue.

    You can always reach me at bruce at perens dot com.

    1. hoppasaurus Avatar
      hoppasaurus

      Thanks for the link Bruce. Jack and myself will be pleased to review the new issue and write it up to our blog. Best regards.

  2. Jack Gassett Avatar
    Jack Gassett

    Bruce,

    Thank you so much for noticing us! 🙂 We really appreciate your support, it is so hard to get the word out and it means a lot to us when you mention us.

    I read the Open Hardware journal and started thinking about an article about the Papilio for the next issue. I’ll be sending you a direct email to run the idea by you and see what you think.

    Once again, thank you. It’s things like your recognition and the Open Hardware Journal that really gives us the moral boost to keep going. 🙂

    Jack.

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