Michael Tiemann is an American software developer and executive, serving as vice president of
open source
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affairs at
Red Hat, Inc., and former President of the
Open Source Initiative
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.
Biography
He earned a
bachelor's degree
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from the
Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1986 at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
.
He co-founded
Cygnus Solutions
Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software. Its tagline was: ''Making free software affordable''.
For years, employ ...
in 1989. His programming contributions to
free software
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include authorship of the
GNU C++ compiler and work on the
GNU C compiler
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and the
GNU Debugger
The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Free Pascal, Fortran, Go, and partially others.
History
GDB was first written by ...
. Tiemann is featured in the 2001 documentary
Revolution OS
''Revolution OS'' is a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement.
Directed by J. T. S. Moore, the film features interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs incl ...
. Opensource.com profiled him in 2014, calling him one of "open source's great explainers."
He was the chief technical officer of Red Hat. He served on a number of boards, including the
Embedded Linux Consortium, the
GNOME
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Foundation advisory board, and the board of directors of
ActiveState
ActiveState Software Inc is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well ...
Tool Corp.
References
External links
Michael Tiemann's Home Page
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Free software programmers
Linux people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Open Source Initiative board of directors
Open source advocates
Red Hat people
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni