Articles and Editorials by Bruce Perens

Scientific Papers

• Parallel image-processing algorithms in a virtual-memory-efficient environment, A. Rao and B. Perens, IFIP Transactions, 1994, vol. 1, B. Pehrson and I. Simon (eds.). Elsevier Science B.V. (North-Holland).
• Fast Linear Transformation for Tiled Images, A. Rao and B. Perens, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 5, no. 1, January 1996.

  On the Web

• The speech I gave in Japan, June 19 2003.
• RealNetworks Part Open Source, Part Not, Release.
• No-Code: The End-Game. Of interest to Radio Amateurs.
• Open Source Leaders Stand Together.
• Software Patents vs. Free Software.
• Sun's StarOffice Release: Is It Really What You Think?
• The World's Most Silly Technology Law.
• Is your software in danger of termination?
• The Open Source Definition.
• I wrote this piece to criticize the Apple Public Source License version 1.0 , and the Debian project leader and the president of Software in the Public Interest, who asked me to write it, also signed it. Apple incorporated all of the changes I asked for into version 1.1 of their license, which thus is unquestionably an Open Source license.
• The i2o bus specification was "closed source". I complained about that, and it eventually was released to the public and made available to Linux developers. I'm interviewed in this Wired News article about that.
• The Trojan Horse warned of some possible security problems for Linux. Since I wrote it, Linux developers have become much more careful about the issues I discussed.
• Preparing For The Intellectual Property Offensive warned about the problems that software patents pose for Linux and Open Source. It's still a problem, although people are much more aware of it now and are talking about ways of dealing with it.
• I got interviewed on Slashdot. Here's my opening lecture and then I answer reader's questions a few days later.
• Check out this very complimentary book review by Jon Katz.
• Here's a piece I wrote on the fallacy of Security Through Obscurity.
• Here's a report on my talk An Introduction [to Open Source] for Attorneys. Unfortunately, only one attorney showed up, so it became something else.
• Here's a press release I wrote when Debian rode the Space Shuttle.
• Buy the Open Sources Book from Amazon, and read the book reviews.
• Securing Ham Radio Networks Without Encryption.
• The Technology of TECHNOCRAT.NET , about how I put together a weblog using 100% Open Source software.

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