On: Before sale to IBM for billions, Red Hat started in cofounder's closet

[partycoder]

> While at CMU, Marc Ewing was known to wear a red hat as he walked between classes. Because of his computer expertise, people would ask for help from the "man in the red hat". Ewing and co-founder Bob Young named their initial software after the hat, and the name Red Hat stuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ewing

[zekrioca → partycoder]

Still.. No one talks about him any longer, and the Wikipedia article is so short that we cannot know what else he did after leaving Red Hat..

[icebraining → zekrioca]

Apparently he left the tech industry, co-founded the Alpinist[1] (he has sold it since), and started pursuing sailing on a competitive level.

He has also a sparse Github profile: https://github.com/marcewing

[1] http://www.alpinist.com/p/magazine/AboutUs

[cgh → icebraining]

What the...? I had no idea about this. I am a subscriber to Alpinist. In fact, I renewed my subscription not too long ago via one of my laptops, which is running Fedora. Thanks for a couple of great things, Marc.

[eigenvector → icebraining]

As a Red Hat user and Alpinist reader, thanks for sharing this. I never knew the connection.