Well-known, open-source advocate Matt Asay leaves Canonical/Ubuntu

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"In an unexpected move, Matt Asay, Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, will be leaving Ubuntu.

"In an e-mail to me, Asay, former VP of Business Development at Alfresco, the open-source enterprise Content Management System (CMS), told me that the news of his depature from Canonical would be be announced internally at Canonical today, December 8th.

"Asay is leaving Canonical, because "Basically, I needed to get back to a customer-facing role but hadn't realized that until my good friend, Bryce Roberts, pinged me about a company he had invested in (Strobe). I hadn't been looking around but agreed to meet with Charles [Jolley], the founder.""

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