Matt Asay on the Status of OSS

OSS_ilation writes "An interview with OSBC director Matt Asay at SearchOpenSource.com gives some insight into where open source software (OSS) has been, is today, and where it hopes to be in the future. A common trend identified by Asay in the interview is that OSS has become very profitable. Asay also touched on the hot-button issue of where the GPL is headed, as well as how open source vendors shouldn't let high download rates give them a big head about the real validity of their projects."

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Re:Professionalism in the open source world.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's because you're a troll and a total pest.

All moderators: nothing CyricZ ever posts has any real content. All of his posts are made to generate responses - sometimes he comes across as reasonable, at other times as needling and nosy, but always content-free. Please mod him -1, Troll.

Re:Matt Asay's credentials and achievements.

[sjaskow]

Well, a quick look on everybody's favorite search engine reveals this http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e _spkr/1627. It appears he works for Novell and is more of a manager than an hard-core programmer.

Whether he's as big a blowhard as ESR remains to be seen.

Re:Matt Asay's credentials and achievements.

[Subrafta]

Matt Asay has been involved with Linux for the past few years, both professionally and academically. Asay is Director of Novell's Linux Business Office and Open Source Review Board, and is responsible for laying the strategic and business foundation for Novell's use of open source software.
Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business. Asay 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 Professor Larry Lessig.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e _spkr/1627