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and Young co-founded open-source software company Red Hat. Red Hat was a member of the S&P 500 Index before being purchased by IBM on July 9, 2019. Marc Ewing and Young's partnership started in 1994 when ACC acquired the Red Hat trademarks from Ewing. In early 1995, ACC changed its name to Red
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company, and was CEO. In 2006, Young established the Lulu Blooker Prize, a book prize for books that began as blogs. He launched the prize partly as a means to promote Lulu.
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Young focuses his philanthropic efforts on access to information and advancement of knowledge. In 1999, he co-founded
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Hat Software, which has subsequently been shortened to simply Red Hat, Inc. Young was Red Hat's CEO until 1999.
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Inc., the open source software company. He owns the franchises for
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments
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Hamilton, Ontario
University of Toronto
Red Hat, Inc.
Forge FC
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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Red Hat
Forge FC
Canadian Premier League
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Canadian Football League
Hamilton, Ontario
Trinity College School
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