IDG Contributor Network: 6 things you should know from Linux's first 25 years

Red Hat was founded in 1993, two years after Linux was announced and the company has been one of the top contributors to Linux. There is a symbiotic relationship between the company and the project. Whitehurst pointed out that it’s hard to talk about the history of Red Hat without talking about Linux and vice versa.
Creating a business model around open source
Whitehurst said that a lot of Linux adoption was happening in the 90s but Linux, and Red Hat, didn’t really have a business