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Sundance Channel Showing "Revolution OS" Monday Night
SnickleFritz writes "Monday the 18th at 9pm the Sundance Film channel will be broadcasting a documentary about the OSS Movement. It will feature interviews with Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman. It labels them as "computer visionaries." While it will probably be old news to most people here, I will still tape it and loan it to every OSS doubting Thomas in my shop." CD: It should be noted that cmdrtaco is in this, talking about free software while lounging on an inflatable sofa at linuxworld. Clearly you'll want to go buy a big screen TV to watch this. This is the same movie that was screened at SXSW last year and at LinuxWorld a few times. Other people featured in the movie include Michael Tiemann, Bruce Perens and Larry Augustin.
Am I seeing a jab here, or is my humor a bit off today?
A winner is you!
And the god's speak again! Let's all rally behind what they say, like sheep.
Will ESR talk about how M$ will collapse within six months again?
Je ne parle pas francais.
They've been running commercials on IFC for a few days; first time I saw I had a moment of cognitive dissonance--"Wha? What's Richard Stallman doing in my TV? He's supposed to be in my computer..."
what cable package comes with that?! time to get the old black box out.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
GNU/Visionaries?
I've said it before and I'll say it again- using those two malcontented weirdos to "sell" anything is professional suicide.
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Inventor of the term 'pardon my French'.
..the nude commentary by Cowboyneal at end? .. No wait.. that was a drea.... nevermind.
..There's a-dooin's a-transpirin'
It's the only way they could fit RMS's ego on the screen.
Relax, it's a joke. I can feel the flames already.
Woot w00t w007.
"cmdrtaco is in this, ....while lounging on an inflatable sofa at linuxworld. Clearly you'll want to go buy a big screen TV to watch this"
Now I have never seen 'taco but is he a large man that requires an extra size TV to view?
http://www.kubuntu.org/
If Cowboy Neal isn't featured .. then what's the point ?
Silence! This is slashdot! You will not speak of analog media here!
.NET is neat.
Make a DivX out of it and distribute it on Gnutella, Kazaa, OpenNap etc.
Anyone who mails a VHS tape will be consigned to the same hell as people who think
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
I was at my machine, my 386 with 4 megs of RAM running Linux, masturbating to pictures of RMS, when I got an email congratulating me on the success of Slashdot. I was working on my latest small project-- a clever little text parser that takes input from the user and puts it in a little cartoon-style word balloon coming out of-- get this!-- a giant, erect ASCII penis's bulging head! Hahaha! It's called COCKSAY. You can download it here.
"Congratulations? That's interesting," said I to myself. "I didn't think Slashdot was coming out until tomorrow." And I oughtta know; I'm on VA's Board of Directors, recruited by Larry Augustin himself, to be VA Linux's "corporate conscience," and it's public record that I hold a substantial share in the company's semen pool. I tooled on over to Linux Today, chased a link like it was a naked hippy's ass-- and discovered that Rob Malda had taken the fast action we had discussed at the last board meeting. Slashdot had come out first thing that morning with a headline on its own site-- and I had become the figurehead of the Gay Faggot Slashdot Empire while I wasn't looking.
Well, that didn't last long. In the next two hours, 369 VA employees also disclosed that they had AIDS, leaving me with a bit of the proverbial semen on my face.
You may wonder why I am talking about this in public. The first piece of advice your friends will give you, if it looks like you're about to come out of the closet, is: keep quiet! It's really nobody else's business-- you don't want to look like you're lusting for cock, though you may want to be deluged by an endless succession of men dressed up as Navy sailors demanding blowjobs from you; fat, hairy men (the bears) wanting to fuck you in the ass; and sweet, young, hairless boys offering you the beauty of their youth.
Trouble with the "keep it quiet" theory is that I've always solicited gay male faggot sex in a very public way. When you're already a media figure, like myself, and your name is on the Faggot Manifesto your whole organization chose to use to come out, and email from friends and journalists starts coming in like crazy as the gayness of your empire breaks records even on the first day, playing it coy swiftly ceases to look like a viable option.
But it wouldn't be fair to dissemble. I serve the gay community. I'm wealthy today because my efforts to spread faggotry and venereal diseases on behalf of that community helped infiltrate the business world and earned the trust of a lot of young, naive boys. Fairness to the twinks.
-Eric S. Raymond
"cmdrtaco is in this, talking about free software while lounging on an inflatable sofa"
If you look carefully, you will see this is NOT AN INFLATABLE SOFA but intead its Stallman's INFLATABLE DATE.
OK. Mod me down. It was worth it. Watch where you sit, Taco my boy.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with all your metadata.
oh the kuroshin jealousy is just so transparent it's painful to watch. many people who submit stories submit them to multiple sites, hoping to get noticed somewhere. slashdot just has better quality control than kuroshin, so it takes a little longer for the stories to get posted (not that slashdot quality is perfect, just better than kuroshin).
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking