Questions-and-Answers: Matt Asay of Novell and OSBC
http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/05/03/09/0129225.shtml?tid=85
ITMJ: How important is open source to Novell's business?
Asay: Open source is the foundation for everything Novell does. ...
ITMJ: What drives Novell's open source roadmap?
Asay: Customers. ...
ITMJ: Are there limits to what can be accomplished with open source?
Asay: I hesitate to answer this, because I keep being wrong when ...
ITMJ: How has open source changed the software industry?
Asay: Open source continues to shift control of IT toward the buyer, and
away from vendors. ...
ITMJ: Why should enterprises give consideration to using open source?
Asay: Because successful open source software development generally
provides cheaper, more stable, more secure software than does the most
successful commercial software companies.
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Matt Asay:
- is part of Novell's Linux Business Office and chairs the company's
. Open Source Review Board ...
- co-founder of the Open Source Business Conference
- was general manager at Lineo
- earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two
. of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and
. specifically the GNU General Public License, under Prof. Larry Lessig.
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