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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.
It's nice to see OSS moving to the mainstream, if only on a cable channel. The web site has a lot of reviews but doesn't really suggest a mainstream audience. Probably it would be mostly people who are power users of Windows or else programmers who already understand the significance of OSS. I hope it does signify a trend, though.
it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.
From Theo DeRaadt's bio...
If you don't already know who I am, maybe you should question why you're posting here.
Sheesh, and I thought I was arrogant and conceited. Just for the record: Your name only sounds vaguely familiar to me, as a 20 year veteran programmer who has programmed in dozens of different operating systems, languages, and markets. Apparently you are the founder of OpenBSD. Well, I guess that's pretty cool and everything, but frankly BSD is below my radar.
Just a suggestion... you might want to get over yourself. You and the BSDs are just not that important.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.