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Larry Augustin

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Larry Augustin
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Hardware and hosting for open source. Augustin co-founded VA Research in 1993 to sell computers preloaded with Linux, and attended the 1998 meeting where the term open source was chosen. As VA Linux, the company listed in 1999 with a record first-day share price rise, then collapsed in the dot-com crash. Its SourceForge site, which hosted code for hundreds of thousands of free projects, outlasted the hardware business.
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