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James Kitchen ‘Kit’ Cosper (born October 21, 1967) was the sixth employee at
Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North ...
and one of the founders of Linux Hardware Solutions (LHS) as well as a founding director of
Linux International Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. The resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history. Since the initial release of its s ...
. After LHS was acquired by
VA Linux Geeknet, Inc. is an American company that is a subsidiary of GameStop based in Fairfax County, Virginia. The company was formerly known as VA Research, VA Linux Systems, VA Software, and SourceForge, Inc. History VA Research VA Research was foun ...
Cosper became Director of Miscellaneous at VA and eventually managed their
open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...
advocacy group, consisting of
Chris DiBona Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) is the former director of open source at Google from August 2004Di ...

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 a
Telkonet
a powerline networking startup in
Germantown, Maryland Germantown is an urbanized census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. With a population of 91,249 as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous community in Maryland, after Baltimore and Columbia, Maryland, Col ...
. He was married on May 5, 1990, in
Wilmington, NC Wilmington is a port city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. With a population of 115,451 as of the 2020 census, it is the eighth-most populous city in the state. The county seat of New Hanover County, it is the principal cit ...
to Lourie Cosper and has three children: William (born March 1985), Keifer (born April 1993) and Elizabeth (born Jan. 1996). His first grandchild Hulet James Cosper, a namesake, was born in Jan. 2019 in Elmer, NJ to his oldest son William and his wife Elizabeth Cosper née Atwill.


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Then You Win
- Article on open source and Microsoft

- Red Hat employee Personal info page from WayBackMachine Living people Geeknet 1967 births {{compu-scientist-stub