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.

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[alexmogil]

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.

Am I seeing a jab here, or is my humor a bit off today?

yeah, I just can't wait

[Anonymous Coward]

And the god's speak again! Let's all rally behind what they say, like sheep.

ESR?

[Dionysus]

Will ESR talk about how M$ will collapse within six months again?

heh

[nomadic]

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..."

Re:heh

[AnalogBoy]

And all this time, *I* thought he was supposed to be in a mental institution :)

Re:heh

[AnalogBoy]

AnalogOS STOP 0x00000001:
Disgusting_Cross_Reference(RMS_Naked)
Reference d from RonJeremy.o
By Pedro@0xSLASHDOT

Purging Stomach... OK
Purging Memory.... OK
Eliminating Pedro. OK

{cerebrum} ok _

the sundance channel?!

[edrugtrader]

what cable package comes with that?! time to get the old black box out.

Don't you mean....

[Anonymous Coward]

GNU/Visionaries?

Awesome!

[Oliver Defacszio]

Yeah, show a whole bunch of people who have never heard of OSS before Stallman and Raymond. If you're lucky, Stallman will spend a half-hour flipping out over the term "open source" and Raymond will regail us all with his harrowing ascent into riches. Why not throw Dan Bernstein or Theo de Raadt in there too, just to make sure absolutely everyone is turned off?

I've said it before and I'll say it again- using those two malcontented weirdos to "sell" anything is professional suicide.

Re:Awesome!

[Fweeky]

> I've said it before and I'll say it again- using
> those two malcontented weirdos to "sell" anything
> is professional suicide.

Yup, never mind breaking up Microsoft or forcing them to open their API's, just make them to take on RMS as their chief marketing bod.

Of course, we'll have to run him through a copy of sed -e s/GNU/Microsoft/ first to make sure he has the desired effect.

Re:Awesome!

[Theo DeRaadt]

Why would it be a problem if I were to be on the show? I've created the most secure, stable operating system available under a truely Free license. I forked from NetBSD. I turned shit into gold with my Midas touch. People ought to be paying me to appear on television.

If nothing else catches their eye about open source software, maybe it would be the assurance that a team of experienced developers out there are developing the next generation of freely available information security tools (OpenSSH and OpenSSL, anyone?) that are already tightly integrated with a strong, BSD-based OS. We've already started working closely with several crypto-card manufacturers to write drivers for lightning-fast VPNs.

You are right about ESR, though. He's a nut.

Is this the one with..

[antis0c]

..the nude commentary by Cowboyneal at end? .. No wait.. that was a drea.... nevermind.

Weeeeee!

[Leven Valera]

Clearly you'll want to go buy a big screen TV to watch this.

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.

Huge?

[DeadBugs]

"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?

Re:No sundance!

[sam_handelman]

Silence! This is slashdot! You will not speak of analog media here!

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 .NET is neat.

That's no lady, sir...

[pcwhalen]

"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.

Re:Shameless....

[Surt]

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).