Author Biography

Asay, Matt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biographical Notes

Matthew N. Asay has been involved with Linux for the past few years, both professionally and academically. Asay is a member of Novell's Open Source Review Board, responsible for laying the strategic and business foundation for Novell's use of open source software. He also has responsibility for growing Novell's developer base. 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, where he studied software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. Before Lineo and Stanford, Asay worked in the investment arm of Mitsui & Co., where he co-managed Mitsui's investment in Cobalt (a successful Linux-based microserver startup that was acquired by Sun Microsystems). Asay also consults part-time for OpenSoft International, a consulting firm focused on the legal and strategic issues surrounding open source technologies.