Bruce Perens is running for the board of the Open Source Initiative. OSI is one of the principal guardians of software and information freedom. Its board is tilted towards companies that profit from open source products they control. Bruce will balance that tilt by representing us. He did a damn good job as leader of the Debian organization. Please read his very short pitch, and maybe watch his speech to the United Nations, and sign his petition. Thanks. That's Richard Stallman to his right on the stage at the UN, nodding approval and fidgeting.

(Having trouble playing the speech? That's an OGG file. I played it with the VideoLAN Media player, packaged for me by Debian as a Mozilla plugin. VideoLAN plays "Windows Media" and Quicktime too. They offer versions for MS-Windows and Mac-OS, free, of course.)

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