Less than a year ago, open source spokesperson Bruce Perens was deriding other figures in the movement as "parasites" who had been "seduced" by corporate funding for Linux. So how is it that Perens, as president of the newly minted Linux Capital Group, has succumbed to the lure of becoming an open source venture capitalist?
"There are important things to be done with Linux," Perens says unapologetically. "I'd like to be the one saying, 'Put some money on this.'"
Perens says he plans to create as many as 12 new companies this year, staging fund-raising dog-and-pony shows - which, presumably, will be free of parasites.
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