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Sundance Channel Showing "Revolution OS" Monday Night

Posted by chrisd on from the nick-moffitt-and-I-baking-under-the-sun-for-art dept.

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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  1. Is this the one with.. by antis0c · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. Weeeeee! by Leven+Valera · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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  3. Huge? by DeadBugs · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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?

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  4. Re:No sundance! by sam_handelman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:Awesome! by Theo+DeRaadt · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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  6. Re:heh by AnalogBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 _