We celebrate Black History Month with this interview about the work and life history of Brian Fox (wikipedia), creator of bash and professed free software advocate! A perfect hero for SudoRoom and potential savior of the country.

He’s a champion of open source which we LOVE!

“In the mid-1970s, when computers were becoming a commodity, there was no such thing as closed source. There was no reason to prevent people from looking at source code. The people who could understand it didn’t hide their ideas, they shared their ideas because the group has a better chance of achieving success than the individual”

• Brian Fox in an interview with the orchid blog

Some nice tidbits:

• As a little kid Brian was part of an experiment with little kids using the early Logo programming language (lifehacker).