Startup (2001)

Startup: Directed by Peter Howitt. With Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Tim Robbins. A computer programmer’s dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.

“This movie is interesting on a surface level. It has lots of action and suspense to engage even passive viewers. Antitrust contains lots of ideas that are specific to the software industry however. The most significant theme of this movie is not one that seeks to implicate major corporations in illegal activities; it is instead one that blatantly discusses the idea of open source code sharing. For those of you who do not know what this is, it is the free sharing of computer programing code. This movie is designed to entertain though. It makes corporate software companies look like organized crime rings. This is simply Hollywoodu0026#39;s appeal to its audiences.This is a good movie for all audiences; however a Linux user would particularly enjoy it.”