Frank+Hecker

media type="custom" key="834361" width="412" height="355" [|cc] [|konzert 080329] by [|miss HECKER] A documentary on the Open Source movement, the Linux computing platform and their struggle to crack Microsoft's iron grip on the world of computing. Includes interviews with Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, Richard Stallman, the ideologue of the movement, and other high-tech big shots like Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael Tiemann, Larry Augustin, Frank Hecker and Rob Malda.

__ **Frank Hecker** __- Frank Hecker works for the nonprofit [|Mozilla Foundation], which is a nonprofit organization promoting choice and innovation on the Internet through its support of the Mozilla project. Before joining the Mozilla Foundation full time, Frank was a sales-ingineer for [|Opsware Inc]. He has also worked for [|CollabNet] supporting sales of CollabNet services relating to open-source and other collaborative software development, as Director of Systems Engineering for the [|Sun/Netscape Alliance] government sales group. At Netscape he was sales technical lead for the Netscape/DoD worldwide site license. His professional interests include the technical, business, and public policy aspects of open-source software, and the information systems on security. Frank states,"Open-source software and open-source development projects have existed for many years now under the general term "free software". The word "free" has traditionally led commercial software vendors to think "no revenue," and customers of those companies to think "no support;" thus free software was assumed to be irrelevant to the commercial world, with free software developers often cast as idealistic and naive." (http://hecker.org/writings/setting-up-shop)