{"id":38720,"date":"2018-08-08T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/guy-martin-open-source-strategy-at-autodesk\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:29:11","slug":"guy-martin-open-source-strategy-at-autodesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/guy-martin-open-source-strategy-at-autodesk\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Martin: Open Source Strategy at Autodesk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/guy-martin-open-source-strategy-at-autodesk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Companies today can\u2019t get away with not using open source, says Guy Martin, Director, <a href=\"mailto:Open@Autodesk\">Open@Autodesk<\/a>, who recently sat down with us for a deep dive into Autodesk\u2019s engagement with and contributions to the open source community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike any company\u2026 we consume a lot of open source,\u201d said Martin, \u201cI was brought in to help Autodesk\u2019s open source strategy in terms of how we contribute back more effectively to open source, how we open source code within our environment, which we want to be a standard \u2014 code which is non-differentiating and not strategic IP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not easy for a large company like Autodesk to engage with the open source community. Because they also have industry-leading proprietary solutions, they need to be extra careful with consuming and contributing to open source. They need to understand various licenses to avoid legal complexity, and they must be aware that releasing some code may also expose company IP. \u00a0These are areas where all companies must tread carefully, and developers need to be fully confident that they can use code efficiently\u00a0without dealing with a heavyweight process to get permissions\u00a0for using or contributing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be a process around what we are going to open source which involves legal at a very early stage,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/guy-martin-open-source-strategy\/\">The Linux Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies today can\u2019t get away with not using open source, says Guy Martin, Director, Open@Autodesk, who recently sat down with us for a deep dive into Autodesk\u2019s engagement with and contributions to the open source community. \u201cLike any company\u2026 we consume a lot of open source,\u201d said Martin, \u201cI was brought in to help Autodesk\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux-freebsd-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}