Bruce Perens is to open source what RMS is to GNU. Bruce was the person who gave us the definition of Open Source. He is a remarkable person with deep roots and faith in the community. Recently, LinuxFormat magazine quizzed him on his pet project UserLinux and also his views on the direction taken by Ubuntu and a few other significant topics.UserLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution project publicly launched by Bruce Perens in November 2003. The mission of UserLinux - as stated on their website - is to provide businesses with freely available, high quality Linux operating systems accompanied by certifications, service, and support options designed to encourage productivity and security while reducing overall costs. It seems he has eventually made time to concentrate on this project and bring it to a fruitful completion. He has written a rather lengthy paper titled - "The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source" - where he delves into analysing how open source works and how one can make it economically sustainable.
The whole interview at LinuxFormat (though a short one) brings to light some of the ideas and opinion of one of the foremost open source community leader on topics of significance.
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