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CNET News.com: Former Netscape exec joins Red Hat board

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Stephen Shankland
May 6, 1999

“Eric Hahn, the former chief technology officer of Netscape
Communications, now is on the board of directors of Linux seller
Red Hat.”

“Hahn was instrumental in driving Netscape’s Linux support, Red
Hat said, as well as the decision to release its software as open
source, a similar code-sharing model that Linux uses.”

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