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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.
The extent to which the proprietary software model was a broken model made the study of that model extremely valuable indeed. Today, as then, free market economics lives within the walls of proprietary software companies (where competing engineers and product groups vie for funding and favor).
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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.
- From CD Stacks to VM Stacks
- Current Open Source Businesses
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Every company has learned how hard it is to go from prototype to product. One historic example is the invention of the chronometer in the 18th century, chronicled by Dava Sobel in her book Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. I don’t know whether Sobel chose the subtitle, because the key...
Open Tech Strategies is run by two highly experienced programmers in free software, James Vasile and Karl Fogel. The bulk of their income is derived from coding free software for clients. They also offer consulting to businesses that need to plan open source strategies. Fogel wrote a highly regarded book titled Producing Open Source Software: How t...
Open source has proven itself to be not only sustainable, but critical to modern life. The hot new software projects–such as in big data, artificial intelligence, and cryptography–come out as open source. Even in the cloud, most offerings in these cutting-edge areas are open source–and the users like it that way, because they know they can safely l...
Nov 15, 1999 · The merger will make Red Hat, Inc. the largest company in the world dedicated to providing open source technology, information and services, offering the full spectrum of open source software and support --- from enterprise deployments to embedded and handheld platforms.
Cygnus Support was a small company founded to support and improve free software. We started with three people -- Michael Tiemann, David Vinayak Wallace, and John Gilmore. (David's nickname from MIT was "Gumby", and many people know him that way.
Nov 15, 1999 · The merger will make Red Hat the largest company in the world dedicated to providing open source technology, information and services, offering an end-to-end spectrum of open source software and support for enterprise servers, the Internet and embedded and post-PC-centric computing.
