Michael Tiemann
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"Michael Tiemann" is Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat/Red Hat, Inc., and former President of the Open Source Initiative. He previously was the Chief Technical Officer of Red Hat. He has served on a number of boards, including the Linux on embedded systems#Embedded_Linux_Consortium/Embedded Linux Consortium, the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors of ActiveState Tool Corp. He is also co-owner with Amy Tiemann of [http://manifoldrecording.com/ Manifold Recording Studios].

He co-founded Cygnus Solutions in 1989. His programming contributions to free software include authorship of the GNU C++ compiler and work on the GNU Compiler Collection/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 Electrical Engineering in 1986 at the University of Pennsylvania.

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[Overall, Red Hat is] very, very pleased with the way Linux has matured this year, ... We see no doom and gloom in our space.

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To build an architecture of trust, it is better to be open than to seem open and better to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy.

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This represents our entrance into the Internet appliance or 'post-PC device' market. These tools will help developers create applications for things like point-of-sale terminals, digital jukeboxes, and even car stereos.

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His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I've seen in my 17 year history of commercial free/open source solutions. I believe that the effect of open source on the proprietary vendors is a force 1,000 times more powerful than the force of proprietary principles on the open source community.

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The stakes are very high in how we construct the future of the Internet, ... Do we want a winner-takes-all scenario for whichever company ultimately creates that particular piece of intellectual property that maximizes interoperability (across systems) or do we want to create a commons?

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But looking for the effect of proprietary software on the open source community is like trying to measure the gravitational effect of the earth on the orbit of the Sun.

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Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing.

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Any line of code I write could in fact trip across a patent I never even knew existed, and that's a problem for innovation, and it's a problem for open source.

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