This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of interviews features Heather Baker, a business manager with Cerberian, Inc., a web-filtering provider for multiple computer systerms, including both Microsoft Windows and GNU-Linux. We at the DTP consider Cerberian's work with Linux to be a digital tipping point because it's an example of the growth of businesses around the GNU-Linux business hub.

One of the questions that people typically ask about Linux is "How can you make money with Free Software". Heather Baker answers that question here. Her employer, Cerberian, sells services to GNU-Linux distros such as Linspire, which she calls "Lindows" in this interivew, which Linspire then re-packages to the end consumer of the Linspire paid desktop service, or to other GNU-Linux distros through Linspire's CNR.com service. With CNR.com, consumers can pay for simple and effective web content parental control fitering to control what their children view on the Internet.

Heather gives a nice, short, easy-to-understand explanation of how Cerberian's web-filtering process works, and how and why Cerberian had partnered with Linspire.

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