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         Red Hat, Inc. has announced the formation of a new non-profit
organization, the Red Hat Center for Open Source (RHCOS), that will
sponsor, support, promote and engage in a wide range of scientific and
educational projects intended to advance the social principles of open
source for the greater good of the general public. RHCOS will foster
projects that advance the philosophy of open source, through which
collaborative intellectual pursuits produce results to be freely shared
and enhanced throughout society. Red Hat, Inc. co-founder and Chief
Technology Officer Marc Ewing will devote considerable time and effort to
the new organization as a Founding Director.

         In addition to Ewing and Young, the Board of Directors for RHCOS
includes well-known innovators and thought leaders. Board members include:

               John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and
Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). His personal research
interests include digital culture, ubiquitous computing, user-centering
design and organizational and individual learning. A major focus of
Brown's research over the years has been in human learning and the
management of radical innovation.

               John Gilmore, entrepreneur and free software pioneer. The
architect of the first Sun workstations, Gilmore is a co-founder of Cygnus
Solutions, a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a
leading advocate for intellectual freedom.

               Lawrence Lessig, Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law
School. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law,
contracts, comparative constitutional law and the law of cyberspace.

               Sim B. Sitkin, PhD, Associate Professor at the Fuqua School
of Business, Duke University.  Professor Sitkin's teaching interests
include managerial effectiveness, organizational behavior, organization
design, organizational control and the management of organizational
change.

         RHCOS will initially be funded with $8 million in a combination
of cash and Red Hat common stock donated by Red Hat, Inc. and three
founding investors of Red Hat: Young; Ewing; and Frank Batten, Chief
Executive Officer of Landmark Communications. Details regarding grant
criteria and the application process are currently being determined by the
Board of Directors and will be released at a later date.

         For more information, email center@redhat.com.