Michael Tiemann

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Michael Tiemann is an American software developer and executive, who served as CTO at Red Hat [1] and later vice-president of open source affairs beginning in 2004. [2] [3] He is also a former President of the Open Source Initiative. [4]

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Biography

He earned a bachelor's degree from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1986 at the University of Pennsylvania. [5]

He co-founded Cygnus Solutions in 1989 [6] [7] and sold it to Red Hat for $697 million in 1999. [8] His programming contributions to free software include authorship of the GNU C++ compiler and work on the GNU C compiler and the GNU Debugger. [9] Tiemann is featured in the 2001 documentary Revolution OS. [10] Opensource.com profiled him in 2014, calling him one of "open source's great explainers." [11]

He was the chief technical officer of Red Hat. [12] He served on a number of boards, including the Embedded Linux Consortium, [13] the GNOME Foundation advisory board, [14] and the board of directors of ActiveState Tool Corp. [15]

References

  1. ↑ "Red Hat Names Michael Tiemann Chief Technical Officer". www.redhat.com. 2000-01-12. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  2. ↑ "Michael Tiemann - METL Advisor". www.uncsa.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  3. ↑ Tiemann, Michael. "Home page for Michael Tiemann". Archived from the original on 2002-01-03. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
  4. ↑ "Thank you, Michael Tiemann! | Open Source Initiative". opensource.org.
  5. ↑ "Interview with Red Hat Vice President, Open Source Affairs - Michael Tiemann". www.linuxquestions.org.
  6. ↑ "FORTUNE VISITS 25 COOL COMPANIES: What has the computer revolution done for us lately?". money.cnn.com. September 27, 1993. Archived from the original on 2023-08-15.
  7. ↑ Tiemann, Michael (March 29, 1999). "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution". 1-56592-582-3.
  8. ↑ Staff, N. P. R. (2012-10-29). "Want To Be Rich? Be Lucky, Know The Right People". NPR. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
  9. ↑ Stallman, Richard M. (February 1988). "GNUs Flashes, February 1988". GNU's Bulletin.
  10. ↑ "About". Revolution OS.
  11. ↑ Behrenshausen, Bryan (August 5, 2014). "How to think like open source pioneer Michael Tiemann". Opensource.com. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Red Hat Executive Team". Red Hat. Archived from the original on 2003-10-03.
  13. ↑ "Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann Appointed to Embedded Linux Consortium Board of Directors" (Press release). Red Hat. June 21, 2000.
  14. ↑ Veillard, Daniel (2003-03-13). "Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting March 11 2003". foundation-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2015-02-21.
  15. ↑ "NY VC funds ActiveState" (Press release). ActiveState. 2000-09-25. ActiveState Board Member and Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann
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