Mumbai, 17 August 2006: Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, and IIT Delhi today announced that they will hold a Knowledge Symposium entitled, 'Owning the Future: Ideas and Their Role in the Digital Age.' This symposium, being held in Delhi on August 24-25, aims to examine India's current legal framework in the context of the country's rich tradition of intellectual inquiry, globalization and the rapid growth of the international open source movement. The symposium is a timely event against the backdrop of individuals and corporations who seek to colonize India's traditional knowledge, a global backlash against software patents, and the growth of the global open source community based on principles of collaboration, community and shared ownerships of intellectual resources.

The event brings together some of the leading voices from the world of traditional knowledge and free and open source software. Dr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission; Dr. James Boyle, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, USA; Dr. Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center; Jim Wales, founder of the open source encyclopedia, Wikipedia; Dr. MS Vijay Kumar, Academic Director and Assistant Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. DB Phatak of IIT Bombay; and Dr. Anil Gupta of IIM Ahmedabad are some of the featured speakers.

Venkatesh Hariharan, Head - Open Source Affairs, Red Hat India said, 'The intellectual traditions of India place great value on the sharing of knowledge. This symposium aims to explore the trends of intellectual property and software patents versus the growing open source community that upholds the values of sharing and collaboration. We are happy to partner with a leading academic institution like IIT Delhi in this effort.'

For more information on the Knowledge Symposium, please visit http://www.redhat.in/events/Knowledge0806/

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