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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. Publicity by littlerubberfeet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think that any publicity showing the 'alternate' (non-wondows) side of computing is good. Linux and the other non-mainstream systems deserve some amount of publicity along with the people behind them. What was that movie, made for TV on TNT I think it was called Pirates of Silicon Valley. Hopefully this will be a little better.

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  2. Encode it in Divx by Link-chan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone should encode it in Divx for all the Slashdotters. I might not be able to see it (not sure if I have the Sundance channel) and others might not be able to see it either.

  3. Re:I think I understand now.... by insta · · Score: 1, Insightful

    To come together on a project of this scale is indeed revolutionary. Nice troll though.

  4. Argh.. don't copy it.. by divert · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ehh.. the video isn't GPLed.. don't copy it.. go here.. http://www.revolution-os.com/page1.html and do as it says.. mail them and hopefully they will put it out on video or DVD then you can buy it..

  5. Re:I think I understand now.... by bytes256 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I concur...the BSD folks were far more visionary...they kinda invented the concept of built-in networking and made a very nice portable interface for networking (sockets)...they invented the visual editor (vi)...and they wrote the first alternative to the Bourne shell (csh)

    Now those are visionaries...I appreciate the work of Linus and crew, but for all intents and purposes they're rewriting UNIX...the BSD folks did that more than 20 years ago.

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  6. Re:I think I understand now.... by evilviper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First off, I can understand how anyone living outside the US would not understand the implication.

    Ever since Sept 11th 2001, every News program on TV has had an American flag in a corner throughout the show. Most new commericals show people standing in front of multiple waving flags.

    This is not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people sticking US flags on their cars, and Red White & Blue pins on their person. (A sort of sign saying "I'm a mindless tool" if you ask me.)

    In addition, the film is being shown in the US and I must say that I believe Americans do at least make up the majority of Open Source developers.

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  7. Re:Nonsense. It's not Linux that is revolutionary. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wouldn't say Linus invented a management style.

    I would say he wandered on the stage at just the right time (when all the bandwidth started flowing cheaply) and at the point in time when all those 386 and 486 boxes were being orphaned as Windows bloated onward.

    It's a 'window of time' thing, not anything special Linus did or is.

  8. On monday and tuesday I am boycotting Slashdot... by Travoltus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just in case a follow-up on this is posted, which will certainly result in Richard Stallman being flamed by all the under-achieving gen-x legends in their own mind species of trolls and ingrates, whose very enjoyment of the freedom granted by GNU/Linux was because of Stallman's creation, propagation, and defense of the GPL.

    (How's that for the world's longest run-on sentence??)

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  9. Says who? by FallLine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why should we believe that Linux's success, never mind "freedom", owes to the GPL? Here's a more probable hypothesis for why Linux is under the GPL license:

    a) there were a bunch of free tools out there that happened to make life a little easier for the developers and were/happened to be under the GPL.

    b) the developers, not much caring for any particular open ideology, decided that it was worth the hassle to go GPL to get those tools.

    c) the viral nature of the GPL ensured that it continued to remain under the GPL and not OTHER open licenses. note: This is not the same thing as saying that that the GPL kept it open and/or alive, just that it remained under GPL.

    Even if you accept that the GPL played some kind of important role (which is a real stretch if you ask me), it's JUST an idea and a rather trivial piece of work at that. For people that espouse the ideas that "information deserves to be free", it seems rather ironic to believe that you owe some kind of tithe to the person(s) that originated the idea ("obvious")and the text ("trivial") of the GPL. You laugh at patents and copyrights that do more and expect less...