Andrew Savory
Linux System Director
He’s a jovial man, known by family and friends as the “king of Dad jokes.” He’s tech savvy. He’s a father to 3-year-old twins and a 2-year-old, all girls, as well as a “bonus” Dad to 3 teenagers. And he’s OIN’s newest team member.
Open Source has always resonated with Andrew. “Growing up in the UK we’re surrounded by large common areas of land for the public good,” he shares. “Open Source is also a public good benefiting everyone. Isaac Newton said, ‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’. Similarly, Open Source allows developers to take software further by standing on the shoulders of others.”
“Open Source will continue to change to keep pace with new software development practices and its growth will continue with the rapid adoption of cloud technologies,” he says.
Andrew has been immersed in Open Source since 1994 when he started using Slackware Linux. He founded an Open Source consultancy in 2000 and co-founded a European Open Source business alliance across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, UK, and Switzerland. He is an Emeritus Member of the Apache Software Foundation, was Open Source Manager for LiMo Foundation, Co-champion of the Software and Open Source Special Interest Group for Cambridge Wireless and was an advisor to the University of Oxford’s Open Source Software (OSS) Watch. He holds a degree in Applied Computing from the University of East Anglia where he was awarded an Honorary Research Fellowship.
In previous roles, Andrew has guided companies and teams through the adoption of Open Source and license compliance, as well as how to become active members of the community. At OIN, he helps the Linux System definition safeguard its coverage area — which includes over 3,700 software packages and applications — for patent cross-licenses between OIN community members.
As Andrew says — there’s more to come.
“I look forward to helping the Linux System definition’s evolution in 2024 and providing Open Source patent protection for not only today, but for future generations.”
