Bruce Perens

Open-source software evangelist Bruce Perens is look- ing for work, but corporate America isn't biting. It's not that companies are uninterested in his ideas for revolutionizing computing and saving money by embracing nonproprietary software with shared code. Rather, his reputation as a gadfly at hacker conferences and as an outspoken critic of Microsoft Corp. tends to overshadow his resume.

Open-source software evangelist Bruce Perens is look- ing for work, but corporate America isn't biting. It's not that companies are uninterested in his ideas for revolutionizing computing and saving money by embracing nonproprietary software with shared code. Rather, his reputation as a gadfly at hacker conferences and as an outspoken critic of Microsoft Corp. tends to overshadow his resume.

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The software company that claims to own key pieces of the free Linux operating system undermined its case this week by displaying samples of the disputed code -- which critics then traced back to a decades-old program released with few restrictions. SCO Group Inc. set off a firestorm in the technology world this year by suing IBM Corp., alleging that the computing giant improperly contributed SCO-owned code to Linux.