Posts Tagged Matt Asay
Matt Asay On IBM Patents
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Patent System on April 8, 2010
Wow. I don’t often agree with the Canonical COO, Matt Asay, on many things and even when I do in general, I often find myself in disagreement with details. In Mr. Asay’s recent piece “IBM patent claims show open source has arrived“, that’s not a problem – because I disagree with everything, filled as it is with inaccuracies [...]
On Comments
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on March 31, 2010
I’ve been thinking about comments and conversations lately. First, I read Matt Asay’s “Should we be having this conversation on Twitter?” post, where he expresses his preference: I therefore prefer the discussion that arises out of a blog, but is conducted over Twitter. It’s hard to remember to go back to blogs I’ve written to [...]
Matt Asay on Partisanship
Wow – lots of interesting stuff to blog about today! Mr. Asay, Canonical COO, blogs up “Life’s too short for partisanship“. Let’s break it on down If Microsoft warms up to open source, why not share some plaudits? And even when it gets things wrong, surely it’s better to politely critique rather than spew invectives? [...]
Canonical COO on Innovation
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 20, 2010
You don’t innovate if you spend all your time talking and working with people that agree with you. You learn by confronting hard questions and answering them. Canonical has a culture of tackling hard problems, and that starts with serious, critical introspection. I’m just one piece of that, but I’m hardly alone in believing we [...]
Matt Asay joins Canonical
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on February 8, 2010
Big development as Matt Asay recently announced he is coming on board Canonical as the new COO. Good Thing For Mr. Asay, this is a good thing: he will greatly expand his influence, and be able to impose his philosophy on what is arguably the most popular distro. Bad Thing For everyone else, this is [...]
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