id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4689 Cygnus Solutions - Wikipedia .html text/html 685 82 67 Find sources: "Cygnus Solutions" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software. For years, employees of Cygnus Solutions were the maintainers of several key GNU software products, including the GNU Debugger and GNU Binutils (which included the GNU Assembler and Linker). Cygnus developed BFD, and used it to help port GNU to many architectures, in a number of cases working under non-disclosure to produce tools used for initial bringup of software for a new chip design. "Red Hat To Acquire Cygnus and Create Global Open Source Powerhouse". "Marketing Cygnus Support", Free Software history, Toad, September 27, 2006. Free and open-source software portal Hidden categories: Articles needing additional references from September 2014 All articles needing additional references ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4689.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4689.txt