Bruce Perens rejected from license-proliferation committee.

[Bruce Perens]

Ben Tilly wrote:

>If you don't want to be judged on it, then make an argument based on what you've done in the last 5 years.
>
I'm assuming that everyone knows what I've done in the last 5 years. But
you can see the resume at perens.com if you don't.

I walked off of the OSI board 6.5 years ago and I've done nothing like
it in 5 years. If you insist on judging from history, you've got to
judge that too. But if you want a longer explanation: since I have
become a parent, Open Source is no longer the most important thing in my
life, and I am able to view it with more perspective than was available
to me when it _was_ the most important thing in my life.

>you'd have a horrible working relationship with everyone else there.
>  
>
A few years ago I managed to get on the W3C patent policy board and
helped prevent them from settling on royalty-bearing patents in web
standards. I invited the then executive director of OSI to participate
and got him admitted to the board as well. And Eben Moglen was already
connecting with the group. Larry and Eben and I had to sit across a
table from Microsoft and many other companies that were out to get their
royalties included in web standards. And we had to behave, and negotiate
with them.

After that, an OSI committee isn't going to be a challenge. I expect
them to be that professional too.

    Thanks

    Bruce