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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.
Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is very unstable
* Linux has a very unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of pinguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, the management has grown wise and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass and it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperable with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Web applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow, unreliable and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts re actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam. 'The screaming fast linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production net since every linux (l)user seems to need nmap to perform normal work-related computer operations. All the 'cool' apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. ) And, for the rare instance where a free unix is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
Feline pooping!
I don't get Sundance. Somebody want to tape it and mail me a copy? ;-)
It should be noted that cmdrtaco is in this, talking about free software while lounging on an inflatable sofa at linuxworld
having sex with his inflatable girl named Kathleen Fent, of course.
Am I seeing a jab here, or is my humor a bit off today?
A winner is you!
And the god's speak again! Let's all rally behind what they say, like sheep.
WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE POOR FORMATTING OF THIS ARTICLE.
... Reprinted below is just a small sampling of some of the actions that have occurred in Greece in 2001. While far from complete, this short list should give our readers a good idea of how the anarchist revolution is being fought in Greece.
"The struggle of memory against oblivion is a struggle against authority. The reality of social struggles bursting against the state, beyond the desire of statistics to distort their meaning and deny their existence, is developing enduringly: many times they are violent and confrontational, multiform and uncompromising, reflecting through the passage of centuries the continual struggle of the inborn human tension for freedom, against any form of exploitation and enforcement. Social struggles never stop and continue to disappoint all those who want to distort human nature and enforce every form of authority and tyranny. Whatever masks they have worn so far, their substance is the same. Terror, suppression, violent repression of human feelings, needs. But they have never actually been able to ensure total social consent to their plans. Insurrections, present everywhere on our planet, inhibit their plans and declare the congruity of the human entity with disobedience and a lack of discipline. Authoritarians moved forward, to promote resignation, creating laws, rules, norms, frames of behavior suppressing free human creativity, exploiting and sucking our energy to empower their dominion, destroying our harmonic relation with nature. They continue committing their crimes against the herd masses by even more nightmarish plans (control of every form of life -- or "life" if you prefer -- of society, through the use of technological monsters and the effort to enthrall and brainwash the human entity and convert it into malleable clay). This effort is contributed to by the enervation and alienation created by the media, the sterilized and distorted knowledge taught in schools of every kind, the media being the sequel to the propaganda of the family and economy, withdrawing people from what they really need to know, together with all the useless information trafficking, urging people to be content surviving on paid slavery and consuming commodities and spectacles. What they baptize as history is one of the biggest lies, one that systematically conceals insurrections and moments of freedom and disobedience, presenting everything that happened so far as a consequence of compromise, politics and diplomacy."
- Awkwardly translated from a leaflet put out in September 2001 by the Greek anarchist group, "Back to the Streets."
It's probably accurate to say that the Greek anarchist movement is one of the most insurrectionary in the world, and by comparison most other regional movements (including here in the states) appear almost liberal and reformist. This makes sense for several reasons: one, the word "anarchist" is a Greek word, and indeed, the desire for true freedom seems deeply ingrained in the people's blood. Greece is also the birthplace of "democracy" and the modern state, which have historically proven to be two of the most effective forms of social control ever devised. Additionally, the origins of the monolithic techno-totality we call western civilization can be traced back to Greece, so it seems only natural that strong resistance movements would arise there to maintain the harmonic equilibrium of the life-force (chaos). The general political atmosphere in Greece, like that of most European countries, is quite different from that of the United States. Few people would look at you incredulously for espousing anarchism. That doesn't mean they would agree. Greeks come in as many political flavors as you can name, including anarchists, theocrats, Stalinists, social democrats and fascists. ItÕs just that the social apathy and self-centered individualism which is so pervasive in our own "non-culture" culture is much rarer in Greece, where you are expected to choose sides and have some kind of political identity. The ruling order in Greece is well aware of anarchism and it is seen as a very real threat to their power. The movement today in Greece is strongest in Athens and Thessalonika, where it is centered around a number of well-established squatted buildings used as social centers, one in Thessalonika, and three in Athens (of course, it's a bit of an over-simplification to say that the movement is centered around these physical locations: they merely serve as valuable organizing hubs. If the movement was really that centralized, it would be non- existent by now). Three alternative radio stations are currently operating in Athens, apparently quite well. Anarchist literature is easy to find in Greece. Books and pamphlets from the historical canon of anarchist writers (Kropotkin, Berkman, Malatesta) are printed by many of the myriad independent small-presses in Greece and hawked by street vendors all over the country. Finally, there is a plethora of anarchist and quasi-anarchist papers being regularly published in Greece; I'll list only a few. Exeyersi (Insurrection) is a monthly, anarcho-syndicalist leaning tabloid that is refreshingly pro-revolutionary violence. Ekto's Nom (Outside the Law) is a more heterogeneous anarchist monthly from Thessalonika. Alpha is a long-running weekly anarchist newspaper and "Pirate's tis Imiselinu" (The Pirates of the Half Moon) is a situationist-influenced monthly magazine (the writings of the situationists, especially Guy Debord, are quite popular in socialists and anarchist circles in Greece. After he killed himself in December of 1994, "Adio, Guy Debord: was inscribed in spray paint all over Athens). The emphasis of the struggle in Greece is definitely on the class or social war, but there is also a growing recognition of technology and civilization as instruments of class oppression. Historically, Greek anarchists had their heyday during the resistance to the German occupation of World War II. Thousands of anarchists were members of the left-wing coalition EAM-ELAS (National Popular Liberation Army), which was based mainly around cities and larger towns. The Germans were never really able to control inland Greece, and were content simply to keep the supply line open to troops in North Africa. EAM-ELAS had some notable military successes in disrupting this, the most famous of which is the blowing up of the railway viaduct at Gorgopotamos. The movement that began to develop in the 70's continuing up to the present day, was strongly influenced by both German and Italian autonomism, not to mention the armed struggle mystique of the Baader-Meinhof Group and Armed Cells of West Germany, and was shaped by the 1973 insurrection against the military junta that ruled Greece. The Anarchist Attack Groups formed in Athens in the mid-80's, specializing in petrol bombing police cars on a massive scale. On November 17th, 1985, when riot police chased anarchists to the traditional anarchist stronghold around Exarchia Square, fierce fighting took place resulting in the shooting in the back of a 15-year old anarchist, Michalis Kaltzas, by the cops. This sparked off further fighting and the occupation of the University of Chemistry, and then that of the Polytechnic, and riots and demonstrations in many other cities. At this point a new wave of repression began: Anarchists were arrested, brutally beaten, there were many house searches, anyone that looked "different" was violently detained during major police street sweeps. Alongside this was the development of armed anarchist groups that carried out a number of bank robberies and armed confrontations with the police. For example, the Anti-State Struggle Group shot dead the Public Prosecutor of Athens as retaliation for severe prison sentences being given to anarchists. In a subsequent gun-battle with the police in May 1985, in which three cops died, the anarchist Christos Tsoutosouvis was killed. From the beginning, 1998 was a fiery year for the Greek state, with about 70 arsons waged by different anarchist groups. Various events, like the arrest of Nikos Maziotis and the governmentÕs decisions concerning economic, labor and educational sectors provided a basis for many fiery nights. The Òcocktail partiesÓ began shortly after the morning of January 13th, when Nikos Maziotis, a 27 year old anarchist, was arrested in his home near Athens. Three handguns, ten kilos of explosives, detonators and bullets were all found in this house. In other raids in nine more houses in Athens, 15 more people were arrested. The whole police operation was presented as a major blow to Greek armed groups, as Maziotis was originally linked to Revolutionary People's Struggle", an armed group with a long history of bombing attacks and assassinations which had been idle since 1995, and the new "Militant Guerrilla Formation", a group that had claimed responsibility for several bombings carried out over the previous two years. The bombing attempt for which Maziotis was eventually charged was one that occurred at the Ministry of Industry and Development on December 6th, 1997. The bomb, which was placed at the entrance of the building, didn't explode because it was wrongly assembled. Police investigations had found Maziotis' fingerprint on the bomb. A group calling itself "Anarchist Urban Guerrillas" claimed responsibility for the action, in support of the villagers in Halkidiki, Northern Greece, who were opposing the installation of a gold processing unit owned by TVX Gold (a multinational corporation) near their villages. The police, after finding Maziotis' fingerprint, placed him under surveillance, in hope of finding more incriminating evidence. They chose to make the arrests three days after two bombing attacks against a taxation bureau and the Ministry of Finance data processing center. On February 13th, an extensive statement by Maziotis was published in a daily Greek newspaper in which he declared: "I am an anarchist and aim at the complete destruction of the state and the capitalist regime and its replacement by anti-authoritarian communes. The only charge I will accept is that of subversive activity, which honors me. If freedom is a crime in the eyes of my enemies, they yes, I agree that I am a criminal." He then went on to elucidate the difference between the three kinds of political violence: state terrorism (the most common and well-organized), revolutionary terrorism (employed by Marxist and Stalinist groups which reproduce in their prelatic organization the structures of the state) and liberating violence. Solidarity actions for Nikos Maziotis started almost immediately after his arrest. On January 27th, a group calling itself ÒRevolutionary WarÓ burnt two cars belonging to the Ministry of Public Works. "Freedom to Nikos Maziotis and all hostages held by the State", they said in a phone call to an Athens newspaper. Two days later, the "Incendiaries of Conscience" took responsibility for the burning of 40 cars between June 6th and January 25th. They pointed out that they burn only selected targets belonging to cops, big companies, diplomats, etc. The message concluded with the words: ÒHatred - Violence - Revenge. Perform your ratio of violence. Peace in the Aegean Sea, war in every suburb. Freedom to N. Maziotis, S. Dapergolas, R. Kalaremas, G. Viassopoulos and all prisoners. Revolutionary greetings to all malcontented." It was also in 1998 that the strategy of burning cars belonging to foreign politicians, diplomats and other servants of the state began to gain popularity amongst anarchist insurgents. It started on January 25th when two cars belonging to the Italian Embassy in Athens were torched. In March, "Anarchist Patrol on the Roads" took responsibility for the arson attack of two cars belonging to the Office of City Planning and Public Works. By years end, over two hundred cars had been firebombed in similar attacks. This method of operating has continued up to the present day in Greece. Alongside continued rioting and confrontations at demonstrations (most notably the anti-Clinton riots of 1999), where banks, government offices, car showrooms and luxury hotels are stoned and burnt down, is the presence of 30 armed anarchist groups., which carry out petrol and explosive bombings around the Athens area. The Greek anarchist movement is not hesistant to confront power head on, and doesn't waste its time targeting the tangential, indirect sources of oppression. Instead, what's most commonly attacked is state property, government offices, tax collection agencies, various appendages of the war machine, banks and luxury cars belonging to government officials and members of the ruling class. In fact, you might say that torching banks, luxury cars and other symbols of bourgeois decadence has become a recreational pastime for anarchists in Greece. One criticism that IÕve heard voiced about the movement in Greece (from someone who has lived there on and off most of their life) is that the militancy and intensity of the struggle there leads to a lot of premature burnout, and consequently, the demographic makeup of the movement there -- in terms of age -- is generally 17-25. But this is perhaps a good thing, for it keeps the resistance fluid and alive, the tactics remain bold and daring, and the movement stays infused with the urgency, anger and clarity of youth in genuine revolt. We have a lot to learn from the situation in Greece but it is vital that we not live out our dreams vicariously through the valiant actions of our Greek sisters and brothers. Rather, we should begin employing their tactics and strategies here, in the real belly of the beast, where we definitely need to intensify our resistance. Anyway, enough analysis, let's get on with the recent actions
April 4, 2001: The automatic cash dispensers of the branch offices of the ABN AmbroBank and HSBC are set on fire in Holargos. Responsibility is claimed by the group "Anarhikes Omades Epithesis" ( Anarchist Attack Groups) who say that the arsons took place as a "welcoming to the conference being held by the magazine Economist and the visit of Bush in Athens". July 22-23, 2001: There were six separate arson attacks in Greece during this two day period of time, all in solidarity with slain Italian anarchist Carlo Giulliani- - Here are three actions that we just found out about and that didn't make it into previous issues of Green Anarchy: At Exarhia (the center of Athens) four luxury cars belonging to the Telephone Company are set on fire. In Galatsi (a suburb of Athens) a car belonging to the Italian Embassy is set on fire. In A.Paraskevi (a suburb of Athens) the agency of the Italian company FIAT is set on fire. Also, the agency of Alfa Romeo is set on fire, in the same area. Responsibility is taken, in a call to a newspaper, by the group "Pagosmiopieplemeni Antistasi" (Globalised Resistance), saying:"Honor to the dead of Genova, solidarity to the strugglers." In addition to these actions, the entrance to the central offices of PASOK (a government party) in Athens is set on fire. Responsibility is later taken by the group "Omada Anarchikon" (Group of Anarchists), saying Òthat this is the way we react to the murder of Carlo Giulliani in Genova.Ó July 25, 2001: The branch offices of the Alpha Bank in Petralona are set on fire. No group takes reponsibility for this action. That same night, in the city of Volos, an arson attempt is made against the branch offices of the Commercial Bank. Responsibility for this attempted arson is taken by the group "Autonomous Action" saying: The struggle against the state in every form continues, the cops are blamed in Genova.Ó July 27, 2001: The entrance to the offices of PASOK in Koukaki is set on fire. No group claims responsibility for this action. November 17, 2001: Anarchists March To Remember Military Junta Victims: Athens: Scuffles broke out between police and anarchist demonstrators on November 17th in Athens following a march on the U.S. embassy to mark the anniversary of a 1973 student uprising that helped bring down GreeceÕs military rulers. About 10,000 people took part in the annual march held to honor students killed in the 1973 revolt that resulted in the overthrow of the military junta the following year. (At least 23 people died and hundreds were injured in 1973 when tanks and soldiers poured into the Polytechnic University campus. The actual death toll has never been firmly established and some sources place it much higher.) This year's march - led by the Greek Communist Party - was quickly usurped by local anarchist groups who hurled stones and wooden clubs at hundred of cops standing outside the U.S. Embassy. Demonstrators also burned an American flag and chanted slogans against the U.S. military action in Afghanistan. The American Embassy is the focus of the march because of the U.S. backing of the junta, which took power in 1967. In a corresponding march in the city of Thessaloniki a group of people attack banks and government buildings. January 11-12, 2002: Massive Anarchist Demonstrations Rock Polytechnic School: Athens: Anarchist groups organized a demonstration at the Polytechnic School of Athens. The point of the demonstration was to take a stand against the new anti-"terrorist" laws, state repression, and the imperialist war in Afghanistan. Anarchists and other radicals marched to the school with banners reading: ÒDemonstration of Resistance and Solidarity,Ó ÒAgainst the Plundering of Our Lives - Solidarity to the Insurrection in Argentina,Ó ÒWe Are All Foreigners and Instructed,Ó and ÒCops - Pigs - Assassins.Ó Meanwhile, anarchist brochures and leaflets were handed out to the public. During the afternoon a movie was projected on the sidewalk of the school, which was followed by a theater play about the (now defunct) German urban guerrilla group, the Red Army Faction. The protest finished with music and dancing. Around 300 people participated in the first day of the protests. The following day around 800 people gathered outside the Polytechnic School with a banner reading: ÒWherever Order and Security Exists - It Smells of Human Meat Sabotage to the Social Consensus.Ó Due to the massive police presence the demonstrators chose to wear self-defense gear as they marched around the school chanting for class war, solidarity with the social insurrection in Argentina, solidarity to immigrants and against state repression. The demonstration finished peacefully at the entrance of the Polytechnic School. At midnight, anonymous radicals, armed with stones and petrol bombs, attacked a police van near the central offices of the PASOK (ruling party). That same night in Thessaloniki, the sub-capital of Greece, hooded activists threw petrol bombs at a bank.
Recommended Reading: A Brief History Of Anarchism In Greece (1848-1973) : A Pamphlet available from ÓNo God-No MasterÓ Anarchist Pamphlets P.O. Box 300, East Brunswick, Victoria 3057, Australia. Also available from GA for $1 pp. Plotino Rhodakanaty: The Actions Of A Greek Anarchist In Mexico: Thick 31-page pamphlet looking at the life of Plotino Rhodakanaty, a Greek anarchist scholar and revolutionary strongly influenced by Fourier and Proudhon, who helped found the Mexican anarchist movement in 1861. This pamphlet is available from the ÒNo God-No MasterÓ address listed above. A-News: Published in Greece, this is an invaluable paper that chronicles ongoing direct action and resistance in Greece. Copies can be ordered from the following address--ANews c/o Anarchist Intervention P.O. Box 30557-10033 Athens Greece
I am into the copy and paste.
Big fucking yawn.
Will ESR talk about how M$ will collapse within six months again?
Je ne parle pas francais.
I've never heard of the Sundance Channel, I can't get to film festivals or linux conferences, but I'd still like to see it.
Did the filmmakers take Stallman's rantings to heart and distribute the film under a free liscence? Can a copy be obtained online?
What kind of visionaries? Wrong ones?
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..."
i guess what you're saying is that BSD^H^H^HLinux is dying?
... hi bingo
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.
Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
what cable package comes with that?! time to get the old black box out.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
GNU/Visionaries?
I've said it before and I'll say it again- using those two malcontented weirdos to "sell" anything is professional suicide.
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Inventor of the term 'pardon my French'.
This story was shamelessly ripped from kuro5hin
see?
Lets give credit where credit is due
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.
So, everything related to GNU or Linux is revolutionary, but the thousands of people writing Open Source operating systems & programs before the GPL got popular, were just a fluke? Just and oddity that doesn't deserve a second look?
Or are we just pandering to your love of buzzwords? Oh yeah, make sure you have an American Flag in the corner too... That would complete the picture.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
..the nude commentary by Cowboyneal at end? .. No wait.. that was a drea.... nevermind.
..There's a-dooin's a-transpirin'
What does he know about Open Source ideals?
So what if he runs Slashdot.
If I host a forum on medicinal remedies, does that make me a doctor? No.
RMS would be insulted by being associated in the same paragraph with Commander Taco.
He may be a dirty, strung out hippie, but you have to admit that the man *does* stick to his convictions.
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
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Read all about it right here!
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.
THE MAKHNOVTCHINA
.... The Makhnovists can do no more than give aid and counsel .... In no circumstances can they, nor do they wish to, govern."
by
Daniel Guérin
extract from "Anarchism: From Theory to Practice"
It had been relatively easy to liquidate the small, weak nuclei of anarchists in the cities, but things were different in the Ukraine, where the peasant Nestor Makhno had built up a strong rural anarchist organization, both economic and military. Makhno was born of poor Ukrainian peasants and was twenty years old in 1919. As a child, he had seen the 1905 Revolution and later became an anarchist. The Tsarist regime sentenced him to death, commuted to eight years' imprisonment, which was spent, more often than not in irons, in Butyrki prison, the only school he was ever to attend. He filled at least some of the gaps in his education with the help of a fellow-prisoner, Peter Archinov.
Immediately after the October Revolution, Makhno took the initiative in organizing masses of peasants into an autonomous region, a roughly circular area 480 by 400 miles, with seven million inhabitants. Its southern end reached the Sea of Azov at the port of Berdyansk, and it was centered in Gulyai-Polye, a large town of 20,000 to 30,000 people. This was a traditionally rebellious region which had seen violent disturbances in 1905.
The story began when the German and Austrian armies of occupation imposed a right-wing regime which hastened to return to their former owners the lands which had been seized by revolutionary peasants. The land workers put up an armed defense of their new conquests. They resisted reaction but also the untimely intrusion of Bolshevik commissars, and their excessive levies. This vast jacquerie [1] was inspired by a "lover of justice," a sort of anarchist Robin Hood called "Father" Makhno by the peasants. His first feat of arms was the capture of Gulyai-Polye in mid-September 1918. The armistice of November 11, however, led to the withdrawal of the Austro-German occupation forces, and gave Makhno a unique opportunity to build up reserves of arms and supplies.
For the first time in history, the principles of libertarian communism were applied in the liberated Ukraine, and self-management was put into force as far as possible in the circumstances of the civil war. Peasants united in "communes" or "free-work soviets," and communally tilled the land for which they had fought with the former owners. These groups respected the principles of equality and fraternity. Each man, woman, or child had to work in proportion to his or her strength, and comrades elected to temporary managerial functions subsequently returned to their regular work alongside the other members of the communes.
Each soviet was simply the executive of the will of the peasants in the locality from which it had been elected. Production units were federated into districts, and districts into regions. The soviets were integrated into a general economic system based on social equality; they were to be independent of any political party. No politician was to dictate his will to them under cover of soviet power. Members had to be authentic workers at the service of the laboring masses.
When the Makhnovist partisans moved into an area they put up posters reading: "The freedom of the workers and peasants is their own, and not subject to any restriction. It is up to the workers and peasants themselves to act, to organize themselves, to agree among themselves in all aspects of their lives, as they themselves see fit and desire
When, in 1920, Makhno's men were brought to negotiate with the Bolsheviks, they did so as their equals, and concluded an ephemeral agreement with them, to which they insisted that the following appendix be added: "In the area where the Makhnovist army is operating the worker and peasant population shall create its own free institutions for economic and political self-administration; these institutions shall be autonomous and linked federally by agreements with the governing organs of the Soviet Republics." The Bolshevik negotiators were staggered and separated the appendix from the agreement in order to refer it to Moscow where of course, it was, considered "absolutely inadmissible."
One of the relative weaknesses of the Makhnovist movement was its lack of libertarian intellectuals, but it did receive some intermittent aid from outside. This came first from Kharkov and Kursk where the anarchists, inspired by Voline, had in 1918 formed a union called Nabat (the tocsin). In 1919 they held a congress at which they declared themselves "categorically and definitely opposed to any form of participation in the soviets, which have become purely political bodies, organized on an authoritarian, centralized, statist basis." The Bolshevik government regarded this statement as a declaration of war and the Nabat was forced to give up all its activities. Later, in July, Voline got through to Makhno's headquarters and joined with Peter Archinoff to take charge of the cultural and educational side of the movement. He presided at the congress held in October at Alexandrovsk, where the "General Theses" setting out the doctrine of the "free soviets" were adopted.
Peasant and partisan delegates took part in these congresses. In fact, the civil organization was an extension of a peasant army of insurrection, practicing guerrilla tactics. This army was remarkably mobile, covering as much as 160 miles in a day, thanks not only to its cavalry but also to its infantry, which traveled in light horse-drawn carts with springs. This army was organized on a specifically libertarian, voluntary basis. The elective principle was applied at all levels and discipline freely agreed to: the rules of the latter were drawn up by commissions of partisans, then validated by general assemblies, and were strictly observed by all.
Makhno's franc-tireurs gave the White armies of intervention plenty of trouble. The units of Bolshevik Red Guards, for their part, were not very effective. They fought only along the railways and never went far from their armored trains, to which they withdrew at the first reverse, sometimes without taking on board all their own combatants. This did not give much confidence to the peasants who were short of arms and isolated in their villages and so would have been at the mercy of the counter-revolutionaries. Archinov, the historian of the Makhnovtchina, wrote that "the honor of destroying Denikin's counter-revolution in the autumn of 1919 is principally due to the anarchist insurgents."
But after the units of Red Guards had been absorbed into the Red Army, Makhno persisted in refusing to place his army under the supreme command of the Red Army chief, Trotsky. That great revolutionary therefore believed it necessary to turn upon the insurrectionary movement. On June 4, 1919, he drafted an order banning the forthcoming Makhnovist congress, accusing them of standing out against Soviet power in the Ukraine. He characterized participation in the congress as an act of "high treason" and called for the arrest of the delegates. He refused to give arms to Makhno's partisans, failing in his duty of assisting them, and subsequently accused them of "betrayal" and of allowing themselves to be beaten by the White troupe. The same procedure was followed eighteen years later by the Spanish Stalinists against the anarchist brigades.
The two armies, however, came to an agreement again, on two occasions, when the extreme danger caused by the intervention required them to act together. This occurred first in March 1919, against Denikin, the second during the summer and autumn of 1920, before the menace of the White forces of Wrangel which were finally destroyed by Makhno. But as soon as the supreme danger was past the Red Army returned to military operations against the partisans of Makhno, who returned blow for blow.
At the end of November 1920 those in power went so far as to prepare an ambush. The Bolsheviks invited the officers of the Crimean Makhnovist army to take part in a military council. There they were immediately arrested by the Cheka, the political police, and shot while their partisans were disarmed. At the same time a regular offensive was launched against Gulyai-Polye. The increasingly unequal struggle between libertarians and authoritarians continued for another nine months. In the end, however, overcome by more numerous and better equipped forces, Makhno had to give up the struggle. He managed to take refuge in Romania in August 1921, and later reached Paris, where he died much later of disease and poverty. This was the end of the epic story of the Makhnovtchina. According to Peter Archinov, it was the prototype of an independent movement of the working masses and hence a source of future inspiration for the workers of the world.
Note:
1. Jacquerie was the name given, to the French peasant revolt of 1358 (from Jacques, the nickname of the French peasant). [Translator's note.]
I am into the copy and paste.
If someone sent me a VHS of it, i wouldn't mind ripping it and hosting it on my dsl line... ..wait - I don't wanna get slashdottet! (Besides I live in denmark :P )
First post ever! - N00b, I know :/
The Hawaii International Film Festival rolled this out last year too. It was great!! The theatre was packed (over 200 people), and the movie itself was excellent. The history behind the cyGNUs name is rather interesting.
Wherever you go, there I am...
Actually, I saw something similar to this recently, only with CowboyNeal instead. Interestingly enough, the programme didn't seem to be related to free software.
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
Oh no! I'm afraid I'm going to have to miss it this time. I have to watch Ally McBeal, and I haven't figured out how to record one channel while watching another...
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..
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.
Woot w00t w007.
"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?
http://www.kubuntu.org/
I live in New Zealand. I believe Sundance is on Sky. Is Sundance a global station, or does this just refer to Sundance US?
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
Eh, who cares. Slashdot is just a copycat site anyway.
8=========D
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Does anyone have hard numbers as to the popularity and coverage of the Sundance channel? I tried a Google search after seeing several people here comment that they don't get it, but was unable to find anything. I was able to find that they are affiliated with the sundance film festival, which is for indy-films only. See http://www.sundancechannel.com/about/
(Hopefully this doesn't spark another Altavista vs. Google debate...)
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I don't get the sundance channel where i live is someone could tape it e-mail me at hewhocomeswiththedawn@shaw.ca
I'll Pay shipping!!
The meek shall inherit the Earth, and the TrOlLs shall inherit the meek and reign supreme.
...'nuff said.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
ESR'll give us some "sex tips for geeks" too!
C-X C-S
But the most suprising portroyal is how Stallman comes out. It shows a much more ballanced view of the GNU philosophy without coloring it with all the other stuff that Stallman gets knocked around for. They do show some of the conflict coming out between Stallman and his view of Linux, especially the footage of the LinuxWorld 99 acceptance speech.
Movie is better than I expected, and I like the fact that there is so much story behind where Linux came from, although it does paint a fairly narrow view of where Linux is going. Majority of it comes from the linux-mania of 99, and a footnote regarding VA Linux's stock runup and down.
If Cowboy Neal isn't featured .. then what's the point ?
Or MY GOD!! I am so horny.. Is he being ravaged in the ass my a mad mob, as he spits perls of wisdom>
I spoke to the director at last year's Atlanta Film Festival and it was only available on 35mm film print at that time.
When every chance at making money from coding is taken away from you? That statment is philosophically invalid.
It should have been "OS OS Revolution".
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
It is good to be king!
dammit. i modded his interview down but i guess the rest of you idiots actually found it inciteful
I saw that one not long ago. It was funny, in a tragic sort of way.
Belief is the currency of delusion.
The Alamo Drafthouse North theater in Austin, TX will also be showing the film. It opens on March 22. Those of us who saw it last year at SXSW can now see it again on the big screen, almost exactly one year later! :)
I emailed comments to both the CA and CO Sundance offices when they made the announcement that they were using WMF for Sundance, but to no avail. Walk the talk, Sundance.
some of us don't have mad cash from subscription services to buy a big screen with :-)
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I am looking for something that can do the following: take a url in the form of these two types http://blah.foo.bar/cgi/directory1/00000001
and http://blah.foo.bar/cgi/directory2/00000001
where 00000001 needs to be incremented as I get each pair of URLs.
Taken from their Website :
;-)
ROB MALDA
Malda (a.k.a. CmdrTaco) is the editor of the famous hacker website Slashdot.
I'm a hacker now because I read News for Nerds... Hmm.... I have some calls to make.
maybe the same person submitted it to both sites...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
this screen scewing and modification has got to stop and it's been happening waaaaay too much to be cute anymore. Something also appears to be interfering with the proper printer stream.
The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic --Joseph Stalin
Read the review from the NY Post @1 221 /reviews.php?critic=all&sortby=default&page=1&rid= 290179
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1000
The best line in the piece: "fans of passive-aggressive potshots will be in heaven"
Some how that rings a little too true.
I use linux and I love to look at naked females. Screws your theory over dosn't it.
Slashdot could encode this show into DivX/MPEG4 and allow downloads by subscribers (as allowing downloads of such a large file from every user wouldn't leave anything left over for the website)
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
I was at my machine, my 386 with 4 megs of RAM running Linux, masturbating to pictures of RMS, when I got an email congratulating me on the success of Slashdot. I was working on my latest small project-- a clever little text parser that takes input from the user and puts it in a little cartoon-style word balloon coming out of-- get this!-- a giant, erect ASCII penis's bulging head! Hahaha! It's called COCKSAY. You can download it here.
"Congratulations? That's interesting," said I to myself. "I didn't think Slashdot was coming out until tomorrow." And I oughtta know; I'm on VA's Board of Directors, recruited by Larry Augustin himself, to be VA Linux's "corporate conscience," and it's public record that I hold a substantial share in the company's semen pool. I tooled on over to Linux Today, chased a link like it was a naked hippy's ass-- and discovered that Rob Malda had taken the fast action we had discussed at the last board meeting. Slashdot had come out first thing that morning with a headline on its own site-- and I had become the figurehead of the Gay Faggot Slashdot Empire while I wasn't looking.
Well, that didn't last long. In the next two hours, 369 VA employees also disclosed that they had AIDS, leaving me with a bit of the proverbial semen on my face.
You may wonder why I am talking about this in public. The first piece of advice your friends will give you, if it looks like you're about to come out of the closet, is: keep quiet! It's really nobody else's business-- you don't want to look like you're lusting for cock, though you may want to be deluged by an endless succession of men dressed up as Navy sailors demanding blowjobs from you; fat, hairy men (the bears) wanting to fuck you in the ass; and sweet, young, hairless boys offering you the beauty of their youth.
Trouble with the "keep it quiet" theory is that I've always solicited gay male faggot sex in a very public way. When you're already a media figure, like myself, and your name is on the Faggot Manifesto your whole organization chose to use to come out, and email from friends and journalists starts coming in like crazy as the gayness of your empire breaks records even on the first day, playing it coy swiftly ceases to look like a viable option.
But it wouldn't be fair to dissemble. I serve the gay community. I'm wealthy today because my efforts to spread faggotry and venereal diseases on behalf of that community helped infiltrate the business world and earned the trust of a lot of young, naive boys. Fairness to the twinks.
-Eric S. Raymond
It came from the
Monkey'sTongue
run a post showing poll find out how many actually watch it :)
this also happens with netscape 4.6 on NT as well.
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I have DirecTV and get IFC and Bravo but not Sundance. Would someone mind Tivo'ing this and hooking me up with the mpg? I have broadband.
Thanks,
-ryan
Shameless plug, hit: autopr0n
pr0n for geeks, by geeks.
Sundance and IFC come standard. Kinda cool.
That isinformative...especially for those who need the VCR plus codes or the rebroadcast times....you could work on your people skills though...
I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
Man, you know all the wind's gone out of your movement when you proudly declare "THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED, MONDAYS ON THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL!"
Unfortnately, I'm on a lame cable service (charter in gville, SC) and i dont get the sundance channel. Does anyone know of another way to get the broadcast? like a video tape mailorder or soemthing? I know, its a long shot, but i really want to see this.
any ideas?
Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
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.
"If you have done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways" -- hhgg
You do with your long dirt!
this sig limit is too small to put anything good h
Kathleen, see that interview!
8^D
Trolling away with my baby, it starts to rain...
"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.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with all your metadata.
Subject: Biblical Laws
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a US radio personality who dispenses advice to
people who call in toher radio show. Recently, she said that, as
anobservant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to
Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.
The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a US resident,
which was posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:
Dear Dr. Laura:
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I
have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge
with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual
lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly
states it to be an abomination. End of debate.
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other
specific laws and how to follow them.
1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a
pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They
claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in
Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price
for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her
period of menstrual cleanliness - Lev.15:19-24. The problem is, how do I
tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and
female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend
of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you
clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2
clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill
him myself?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an
abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I
don't agree. Can you settle this?
7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have
a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my
vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair
around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev.
19:27. How should they die?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me
unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two
different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments
made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also
tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to
all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? -
Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family
affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws?
(Lev.20:14)
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you
can help.
Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and
unchanging.
Your devoted disciple and adoring fan.
Jim
I am into the copy and paste.
Literally minutes ago I shook Eric Raymond's hand. He's at my university now, and he gave what was probably the most enlightening speech I have ever heard.
Something that might be found interesting -- he broke the news to us that he has been asked to join the TransGaming board of directors. He's seriously considering it, because he thinks that their "street performer" business model is very promising.
THIS FUCKING CUNT killed the WIPO troll!!! Let's find her and fucking KILL HER!!!
EAT A DICK, you whore!!!
STOP ME BEFORE I POST AGAIN!
The Alamo Drafthouse North in Austin, TX will be showing this movie for a couple weeks. While not a wonderful piece of filmmaking, it's an interested watch. Plus the Drafthouse has good sandwitches and cold beer (though you might be confused by the free speech, free beer thing because you had to pay for yours.)
Just tell me when the Special Edition DVD box set with remastered visual effects is going to be released. Oh, what? This isn't a Lucasfilm flick? Nevermind.....
(Damn me for not having any damn clue what my slashdot password is and not being willing to reboot into windows just to check what it is!!! Hence, the AC post...do me favor, and if you feel inclined to mod this up, don't waste your points, give 'em to someone else(wow, the PS is longer than the comment))
-1, Dumbass
Linux is a reinvention of a reinvention. Many UNIXes existed before, and even open source ones. What Linus really invented is a management style. Most people won't argue if you tell them BSD is better, just like most people won't argue if you tell them a Mac (or Amiga) is (or was) better. They won't argue with you because it is irrelevent. Linux is more widespread than BSD primarily because of the management style. Linus made it easy for everyone to contribute... so they did. Read the Cathedral and The Bazaar for more info on this.
No, the correct link is here (14MB High-Q quicktime, I'll let you guys work it out for the other formats)
I dunno, I head Heaven's Gate still has an opening or two...
http://windows.scares.us
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.
REVOLUTION OS
Rating:*1/2
"Does Not Compute"
I AM 100 percent behind the computer rebels who created the Linux operating system to fight Bill Gates' Microsoft monopoly.
But I couldn't get into this documentary about them.
As directed by J.T.S. Moore, it is a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the Linux cause. Try again, guys.
The goatse guy for president. Win one for the gaper!
On the business end we meet Michael Tiemann, a co- founder of the first company based on the GNU technology, and Larry Augustin, whose VA Linux Systems, one of the first companies based on Linux, set the record in 1999 for the highest opening price, $299 a share, for an initial public offering. But that was then. Today the stock trades for around $1 a share.
The goatse guy for president. Win one for the gaper!
Though I don't imagine this one has Rachael Leigh Cook and Claire Forlani in it . ..
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
I saw this film at an HP sponsored open source day at the local movie theater. It was really cool; you get a lot of history and see a lot of the key players in the OSS movement. Bruce Perens also spoke in person about Linux around the world and open source and Linux support within HP, including direction of Linux standards. One guy in the audience actually asked the director of the film (he was there) why the film itself wasn't open source....
Geez. I tend to do the same thing. Have for years.
I like big, floppy tees with pockets. They don't restrict, and leave my neck alone. This reassures me that I am Safe(tm).
Maybe the familiar textures and aroma(s) allow one to maintain a connection to a known and stable frame of mind.. Eccentrics have long been known to carry some comfortable element of their environs around with them for this very reason.
Einstein would be a good example of the aforementioned fussiness.
Brak: What's THAT?
Thundercleese: A light switch.. of TOTAL DEVASTATION!
Exactly what I was going to post. Glad I don't have to type it all now :)
here:
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http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info/0,
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.
You mean the guy who stole the Jargon File?
--Blair
Clearly you'll want to go buy a big screen TV to watch this.
I know how OSDN is strapped for cash these days. What if companies paid them to add some relevant links to Slashdot editor comments?
Clearly you'll want to go buy a Sony big screen TV to watch this.
Is Slashdot above product placement? Tell me you weren't thinking about it when you read the article!
(I would have used Philips in my example, but their site is broken in Mozilla.)
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On DishNetwork it's channel 332...but it's part of the showtime channels package.
Mar18 9pm est
Mar22 6pm est
Mar24 1pm est
Has anyone seen this movie? Can anyone comment on the quality of narrative, or the interview continuity, etc.
Is this worthwhile to introduce to my non-tech family members, or will I see Capt. Kirk at the end telling us all to go home, move out of our parent's basements, and get a life?
- passion
and do not you ever post that site to slashdot again
Gotta love TiVO listings. DirecTiVO takes care of that watch one record another thing just fine, too.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Blatant stealing of link from previous poster
My review of the 9 minutes:
Linus seems like a nice enough guy, quiet, proto-typical geek, tends to talk a bit too technical but uses metaphors, comparisons to get his point across...Overall grade: B
Bruce Perens knows what he's talking about, but is either A) Amazed at the shiny flashing light on the top of the camera or B) staring at himself in the reflection of the camera. He needs to sit back, relax, and stop swinging around like a monkey...Overall Grade: C+
Mr Stallman handles himself well enough with an interviewer, but tends to talk over the heads of any non-technical viewer. His anecdote is interesting though, the loss of freedom because of having to use passwords..I wonder if he'd still give the same argument...Overall grade: B-
Eric Raymond scares me...and his obvious loathing for Microsoft is dripping off of every word "I'm your worst nightmare" That's jokes we tell around the office, not in public...Overall grade: C
9 minutes was enough of an anti-MS stance for me...the female voice, reading Bill Gates' letter to the hobby club was embarassingly melodramaticized.
"Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested." (LT 2004)
"I think Linux will become dominant before it is really ready technically for the end users. And the reason I believe that is because I now think that Microsoft monopoly is going to collapse for other reasons in the near future."
(Emphasis added for people who cannot discern subtleties in written text.)
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
Last night I saw it, The Code, Linux...
The first thing you see is Eric Steven Raymond being interviewed in what looks like a library.
The movie not only brings up Linux, but other related topics such as open source and GNU are also covered.
There are some information about Linus Torvalds upbringing aswell. His mother and father talks about his upbringing and first contact with computers. His father also talks about his politic standing and how it has affected Linus.
Other important people interviewed were for example Linus right hand Alan Cox. He talked about the kernel and how it is built by people all over the world, but Linus also talkes about the beginning and the Linux 0.01 release. The original e-mail to comp.os.minix is also cited.
The gurus talked and discussed the history of computing aswell as the future. Topics such as World wide web and even Arpanet were covered.
The only bad thing with this movie was probably the speaker voice. Is was a Finnish woman speaking English. The only thing was that she could not speak any English. In my opinion the creators should have chosen another speaker voice. Enough complaining though...
I believe this movie is too non-technical for Linux people, but it is probably a good thing for all non-technical people out there.
To sum it up I have to say this is a good movie explaining the movement surrounding Linux, and it is a must-see for everyone, not just for the Linux community as it widens your mind and makes you aware of other options available.
For more information about the movie please visit http://www.linuxthemovie.com.
what the fuck is OSS?
Of course, don't forget to read Jelerial's e-mails! Here you'll discover how truly difficult it is to decide what to do on the weekends... A circlejerk? A wankfest? Make lame attempts to troll Slashdot with all your friends? Plagiarize other troll's comments and censor anybody who complains about it?
In short, if you haven't been to Jelerial's site, you don't know what you're missing!
from http://www.revolution-os.com/page5.html:
ROB MALDA
Malda (a.k.a. CmdrTaco) is the editor of the famous hacker website Slashdot.
hackers?
I can't afford a Big Screen TV, 'cause I blew all my money on a /. subscription. darn it.
;)
Does it need to be a big screen because all this subscription money is making Taco too fat to fit on the small screen?
.
Could not agree more, I've met RMS, and heard him speak- he flipped out when people mentioned open source. He got really nasty- and extremely child like. He got extremely agitated- apparently because he had been asked to speak about something other than his current baby project- and continuously said things like: "I wanted to talk about XXXXXX but HE (Points to organiser) wanted me to talk about other stuff..". He slammed anyone that asked any questions- and definitely gave you the impression that he saw himself as above everyone- and they should just accept it. RMS as any kind of spokesperson is probably the least wise decision I can think of. The real question- is how many pro-OSS'ers agree?
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??)
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
I'd love to have that to show some people around here. And to watch it myself ofcourse :-)
Someone know how to get my hands on it?
It's easy to find in the Dtivo, under title search "rev", list it as 1 1/2 hr doucmentary
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Can somebody please opensource this thing and encode it with the gpl'd codecs XVID and OGG and unleash it with P2P software so the masses can watch it?
Yesterday my uncle called and told me about this,
he was talking about a channel I never heard of
and that it would start around 22:20 (GMT+1).
Now when looking in the tv guide I cannot find
anything even close. There I no channel called
Sundance Channel at all, I know there should be
another channel also playing this documentary.
My uncle told me the channel is a german/french
channel, and it's available in whole of Europe,
can anyone living in Europe (Netherlands) please
fire up his tv guide and look for the channel.
Bad luck I cannot reach my uncle at the moment.
Mike Machuidel
Revolution Os: The revolution will not be televised. However, it will be part of this complete breakfast.
Why did they change the name of the documentary?
In Sweden and Finland it was called The Code. http://www.linuxthemovie.com
Why change it to Revolution OS? http://www.revolution-os.com
Hey Rob, only 40 more appearances to catch up to Wil!
Yeah, Visionaries. Let's give everything away for free to everyone and not make a profit. I think that's called communism or at least marxism. I wouldn't call that new. And as far as Linux goes, that crap is so old it's not even funny.
Someone encode it to MPEG or DivX and post the link here.... I wanna see it! =)
Anyone else see it at H2k?
Though for whatever reason "Rob Malda" is not listed in the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia's database, other folks who appear in Revolution OS are listed. Since Bruce Perens has a Bacon Number of 3, for his appearance in Revolution OS, CmdrTaco's Bacon Number is also 3.
Now, the question is, does he have an Erdös number?
ESR is an excellent spokesperson and Open Source advocate. I've met him a couple times. Check out his webpage Eric Raymond's Homepage.
The picture on his website looks very close to a guy I saw on a cable access show a few weeks ago...but the guy I saw on TV was decidedly unhinged, smoking pot, and ranting about alien conspiracies, government coverups, and generally spazzing out and speaking in tongues near the end. The people sitting next to him weren't much better. This wouldn't be what you're talking about, would it? It was frankly frightening to see an overweight beared man drooling and screaming unintelligibly.
"All mankind is at the mercy of a handful of neurotics". - Norman Douglas
I knew a very beautiful girl who was into computers and stuff, and not only that she was impressed by computer ability.
:(
Sadly, I never got any naked pictures of her
Oh, also Asia Carrara considers herself a geek. keslin is a geek sig-spammed k5 and slashdot for a while to get people to go to her porn site. You could probably say she was a geek, but. you probably wouldn't say she was that good looking...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I know who submitted this... and he submitted to both sites at the same time. So who's to blame for it being here last?
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...
I read the Readers Digest version. It was better!
You're just humorless.
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for any period of time between 1990 and the present...
...MAYBE YOU!
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Revolution OS will be showing at Alamo Draft house (north) from March 23 - March 28.
That's the movie theater that serves beer and the only reason I leave the house anymore.
Save a Tree. Eat a Beaver.
the same could be said just about every historial event that has ever taken place that involved people. the right place at the right time.
But faster processing of submissions is bound to happen thanks to the smaller workload at kuro5hin (way less submissions just being part of what eases their job). Neither site is profit-bearing, so the slimmer site is bound to be more "efficient."
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