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Matt Asay has been involved with open source for the past seven years, and has been at the forefront of uncovering novel business models to monetize open source software. To this end, Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference as a place to aggregate the industry's luminaries to figure out promising open source business strategies; co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office and helped to kick-start the company's growing Linux business; served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, dedicated to finding and developing open source investment opportunities; and ran embedded Linux startup, Lineo's, network & communications business until its acquisition by Motorola in 2002. Asay speaks and publishes frequently on open source business strategy, and consults frequently for several open source startups and venture capital firms. Asay holds a juris doctorate from Stanford, where he worked with Professor Larry Lessig on analyzing the GPL and other open source licenses. He also holds an MA from the University of Kent (United Kingdom) and a BA from Brigham Young University. | 