Guy Martin is the Director of Open Source & Standards at NVIDIA, where we works with the Omniverse product team on helping them navigate the open landscape with projects such as Universal Scene Description, MaterialX, and many others. He also consults with the rest of the organization on open source best practices.
Guy brings a unique blend of 25+ years’ experience as both software engineer and open source strategist to NVIDIA. He has built open source programs for companies like Red Hat, Samsung and Autodesk and was instrumental in founding the Academy Software Foundation while Director of the Open Source Office at Autodesk. He was also a founding member of the team that built the Open Connectivity Foundation while at Samsung, helping to successfully integrate FRAND standards with open source reference implementations. Most recently, he lead OASIS Open as Executive Director, where he helped to merge the best of open source and open standards for that organization. He is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology and an accomplished public speaker.
An avid, lifelong athlete, Guy is based near Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A.
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Great points Aahit.
I agree that it's important to comply with OSS licenses, especially when used in products that are later resold. However, my point in putting together that top 10 list is that there's a *lot* more to effectively utilizing open source than just license and IP compliance.
I think there's a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) that gets propagated by various parties out there (I'm looking at you Microsoft), but there are tools/processes to help manage the compliance side of things.
I also agree with you that there are a dearth of experts who can not only shepherd companies through the compliance issues, but, more importantly, who can be leaders and champions for all of the other benefits that open source brings: access to faster community-led innovation, reduction in vendor lockin, quality peer-reviewed software, etc.
While there will most definitely be a continued need for good open source-savvy legal resources such as yourself, I think it's even more important to grow the ranks of general OSS champions and leaders within all organizations if we hope to continue the push toward more effective open source utilization.