Peter D. Hipson is a teacher, author, consultant, electrical engineer, and developer; who is a strong proponent of the open source initiative, and believes that open source software is to be the way of the future. He teaches computer science at Franklin Pierce College, has written more than a dozen books, including three books on the Windows registry. He is also the author and developer of a number of Windows application programs. His computer hardware experience includes many different computer platforms, from PCs to main-frame computers, as well as patents in CPU technology and security.