Bruce Perens Fired

Just got back from a short weekend holiday in Boston. Reading the NY Times on the plane, I found an article [registration required] stating that Bruce Perens has been fired from HP due to his support for open-source software and constant criticism of Microsoft. The HP-Compaq merger has made Microsoft a much more important relationship for HP, I can’t help but wonder if MSFT asked for Mr. Perens’ head. Also noteworthy is the fact that Carly Fiorina has been publicly supportive of GNU\Linux, and that this seems like a major step back for HP in this regard.

September 9, 2002 | Archived in GNU/Linux