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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.
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Searching via my Tivo, I see that there are several showings planned on the Sundance channel:
.. adjust for your time zone.
Monday, March 18 @ 11:00 pm
Thursday, March 22 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 24 @ 3:00 pm
All times Central Standard time
I just got an email from J.T.S. Moore, the director. He tells me that the DVD will be out sometime towards the end of the year.
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I saw this in October at the Savannah Film Festival...(SCAD). It's one of the places it was first shown. A lot of people thought it was wildly inacurrate and did a bad job of portraying a lot of good people (Torvalds, etc.). You'll really have to see for yourself, but if you don't get sundance, don't think you're missing anything incredible.
The film played earlier this year at the Hawaii International Film Festival. Yeh, we have an international film festival. The film was a superior Documentary about the revolutionary qualties of Linux. It introduced Richard Stallman and the whole concept of GNU. You meet Bruce Perens and learn about Open Source. Both "movements" are very objectively and positively portrayed for their respective contributions to Linux. It is a documentary, not a commentary. If you possibly can, watch this film. At least talk to your local video store, or maybe have your linux user's group buy a copy. To see these visionaries in "person" is quite impressive and a good reminder that they are only people. (though they are freaks) If you are trying to get someone to understand this whole thing, the movie does a great job for you.
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Flames? For making fun of RMS? Geeze, why does everyone on here do that.
/. just irritates the hell out of me; it's like, "I know I'll get modded down for expressing these views that everyone else on slashdot agrees with, but [extremely popular view]."
"Oh, I'll get flamed/modded down for this, but I think RMS has an ego".
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It's like the people who insist they're going to get modded down for criticizing windows, but here goes.