Michael Tiemann
Michael Tiemann is an American software developer and executive, servingTemplate:When as vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat, Inc.,<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and former President of the Open Source Initiative.<ref>Thank You Michael Tiemann!</ref>
BiographyEdit
He earned a bachelor's degree from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1986 at the University of Pennsylvania.<ref>Interview with Red Hat Vice President, Open Source Affairs - Michael Tiemann</ref>
He co-founded Cygnus Solutions in 1989.<ref>FORTUNE VISITS 25 COOL COMPANIES: What has the computer revolution done for us lately?</ref><ref>Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account, by Michael Tiemann (1999)</ref> His programming contributions to free software include authorship of the GNU C++ compiler and work on the GNU C compiler and the GNU Debugger.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Tiemann is featured in the 2001 documentary Revolution OS.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Opensource.com profiled him in 2014, calling him one of "open source's great explainers."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He was the chief technical officer of Red Hat.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He served on a number of boards, including the Embedded Linux Consortium,<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> the GNOME Foundation advisory board,<ref>Template:Cite mailing list</ref> and the board of directors of ActiveState Tool Corp.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>