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.