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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.
Am I seeing a jab here, or is my humor a bit off today?
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And the god's speak again! Let's all rally behind what they say, like sheep.
Will ESR talk about how M$ will collapse within six months again?
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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 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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what cable package comes with that?! time to get the old black box out.
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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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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'
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.
Can't. Violates Copyright law.
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AFAIK, it's only on digital cable and minidish systems.
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Real life is underrated.
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?
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ESR'll give us some "sex tips for geeks" too!
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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.
Silence! This is slashdot! You will not speak of analog media here!
.NET is neat.
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
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
It should have been "OS OS Revolution".
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
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! :)
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maybe the same person submitted it to both sites...
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That isinformative...especially for those who need the VCR plus codes or the rebroadcast times....you could work on your people skills though...
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You need to sharpen your Googling skills. A search for "Sundance Channel" (include the quotes) brings up their fancy-schmancy website at the top. It's not even a hard URL to guess.
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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
The media metrics guys don't measure viewership or penetration for any channel that is not a client. Sundance and Independent Film Channel are both "niche" channels, there primarily to market to the crowd drawn by "art" and independent film, and I am sure they have not signed up for any metrics services.
Recent Cable Nielsen results are here, but Sundance and the Independent Film Channel aren't even counted.
I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
...this time I will preview...
I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
"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.
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.)
I dunno, I head Heaven's Gate still has an opening or two...
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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.
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?)
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!
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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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
Gotta love TiVO listings. DirecTiVO takes care of that watch one record another thing just fine, too.
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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)
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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Revolution Os: The revolution will not be televised. However, it will be part of this complete breakfast.
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.
I knew a very beautiful girl who was into computers and stuff, and not only that she was impressed by computer ability.
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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...
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Heh, actualy I think I'm doing a good enough job of that on slashdot myself. If you really want to help, plug ap on other sites
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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...