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Bruce Perens Venture Firm Funds First Linux Business

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 11, 1999

[ Linux Today reader Bruce Perens writes: ]

A while back, I accepted the president’s position at
Linux Capital Group, a business
incubator and venture capital firm specializing in Linux. This is
explained in my open letter to the free
software community
on the group’s web site.

My firm has announced its first investment,
in Progeny Linux, a company headed by Debian Founder Ian
Murdock, which will produce a commercial version of Debian in
cooperation with the Debian developers. We will be starting and
funding several other Linux companies. We now intend to show other
businesses by example how to succeed while being a good
citizen of the free software community.

Thanks

Bruce Perens

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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