Michael Tiemann
Education
Stanford University
Ph. D Candidate, Electrical Engineering 1988-01-01 - 1989-01-01
University of Pennsylvania
BS, Computer Science and Engineering 1982-09-01 - 1986-06-01
Chapel Hill Quest Center
2nd-Degree Blackbelt, To-Shin Do Ninjutsu, 2012-02-01 -Work Experience
Ministry of Awesome
Current
Ministry of Awesome
OS-Climate
Current
OS-Climate
Manifold Recording
Current
Manifold Recording
Fedora Project
Current
Fedora Project
Red Hat
2000-01-01 - 2022-08-01
Red Hat
Cygnus Support
1989-01-01 - 2000-01-01
Cygnus Support
Cygnus Solutions
1989-01-01 - 2000-01-01
Cygnus Solutions
MCC
1986-06-01 - 1988-06-01
MCC
Skills
Summary
I started the world's first Open Source company, Cygnus Support, in 1989. Cygnus was the first open source company to turn a profit (1990), receive VC funding (1997), and was acquired by Red Hat for $687M (2000). Red Hat was acquired by IBM in 2019 for $34B in 2019. Here are my thoughts on the economics of open source: https://opensource.com/article/18/9/awesome-economics-open-source I became the CTO of Red Hat in January 2000. As VP of Open Source Affairs for Red Hat, I promote open source technology strategy and policy to the private and public sectors, globally. Since 2020 I have also been acting as Project Lead for OS-Climate, a Linux Foundation project. Specialties: Software architecture, design, and implementation, Open Source licensing, technologies, and policy, Customer support and satisfaction, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Strategy, Design Thinking. I have broad, cross-cutting interests that all relate somehow into a larger whole: sustainable agriculture and food-based community systems, education ranging from K-12 to college and graduate level, the arts and the artistic process, world history and travel, music- and movie-making, martial arts, and fitness.
