Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin wrote that Kohn helped establish the Linux Foundation and oversaw the fastest growing open source community in history, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

In 1994 he conducted the first secure commercial transaction on the internet after building the first web shopping cart.

Kohn stepped aside from his role in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to incubate and found the Linux Foundation Public Health initiative which is helping authorities around the world combat COVID-19; Dan could always be counted on in a crisis.

Kohn leaves behind his wife Julie and two young boys, Adam and Ellis.