Seems that Bruce Perens, long time open source advocate and employee of hp, has been fired for ‘MS baiting’ [NY Times link – registration req’d]. Compaq and hp merging has created the biggest Microsoft customer ever, and it seems that hp’s management wasn’t too keen on Bruce’s rather hostile attitude to the Redmond behemoth. I doubt he’ll be out of work for long, but it’s the principle of the thing really, isn’t it?