Michael Tiemann
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Michael Tiemann is Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat Inc, as well as President of the Open Source Initiative. He used to be the Chief Technical Officer of Red Hat. Michael serves on a number of boards, including the Embedded Linux Consortium, the Jabber Technical Advisory Board, the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors of ActiveState Tool Corp.
He co-founded Cygnus Solutions in 1989. His programming contributions to open source software include authorship of the GNU C++ compiler and work on the GNU C compiler and the GNU debugger. Tiemann is featured in the 2001 documentary Revolution OS.
He earned a bachelor's degree from the Moore School of Engineering in 1986 at the University of Pennsylvania.