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A letter and petition from well-known open source activist Bruce Perens raises questions about how the open source world is governed, and how the decade-long movement can keep potentially hostile forces from changing its direction. Open source software has existed for many years. But we have only had a common definition and term for 10 years. We know this, because it was only in April 1998 that publisher Tim O'Reilly hosted a summit for the authors of several well-known software packages -- including GNU founder Richard Stallman, Perl author Larry Wall, Linux creator Linus Torvalds, and Python author Guido van Rossum.
