Kit Cosper

Kit Cosper was the sixth employee at Red Hat and one of the founders of Linux Hardware Solutions (LHS) as well as a founding director of Linux International After LHS was acquired by VA Linux Cosper became Director of Miscellaneous at VA and eventually managed their Open Source advocacy group, consisting of Chris DiBona, Joseph Arruda and John Mark Walker. During the Dot Com implosion of 2001 Cosper left VA and went on to serve as Executive Technical Advisor and interim CTO at Telkonet, a powerline networking startup in Germantown, MD.

[http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-05-18-011-05-NW-LF Then You Win] - Article on Open Source and Microsoft