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Michael Tiemann

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Michael Tiemann
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Support contracts for free tools. Tiemann co-founded Cygnus Support in 1989 with John Gilmore and David Henkel-Wallace, the first company built purely around selling services for free software. Customers paid Cygnus to port, fix and support the GNU compiler and debugger for their chips, while improvements went back to the GNU project. Red Hat bought Cygnus in 1999, and Tiemann went on to help lead Red Hat's open-source strategy.
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