Bruce Perens

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Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals

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Non-Judicial Punishment is a key part of democracy and free-market capitalism, and highly problematical, at the same time.

Bruce Perens: Invasion of the Ethical Licenses (2019)

2020125 points53 comments Open Source details

About 23 years ago, I created the Debian Free Software Guidelines to help the Debian developers decide what software was permissible to include in Debian, which aspired to be 100% Free Software, and what should be consigned to a "non-free" repository upon which Debian would never depend. Nine months later, those…

A Cyber-Attack on an American City

200970 points16 comments Security & Privacy details