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.

Comments

ESR?

[Dionysus]

Will ESR talk about how M$ will collapse within six months again?

heh

[nomadic]

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..."

Re:heh

[AnalogBoy]

AnalogOS STOP 0x00000001:
Disgusting_Cross_Reference(RMS_Naked)
Reference d from RonJeremy.o
By Pedro@0xSLASHDOT

Purging Stomach... OK
Purging Memory.... OK
Eliminating Pedro. OK

{cerebrum} ok _

the sundance channel?!

[edrugtrader]

what cable package comes with that?! time to get the old black box out.

Don't you mean....

[Anonymous Coward]

GNU/Visionaries?

Awesome!

[Oliver Defacszio]

Yeah, show a whole bunch of people who have never heard of OSS before Stallman and Raymond. If you're lucky, Stallman will spend a half-hour flipping out over the term "open source" and Raymond will regail us all with his harrowing ascent into riches. Why not throw Dan Bernstein or Theo de Raadt in there too, just to make sure absolutely everyone is turned off?

I've said it before and I'll say it again- using those two malcontented weirdos to "sell" anything is professional suicide.

Re:Awesome!

[Theo DeRaadt]

Why would it be a problem if I were to be on the show? I've created the most secure, stable operating system available under a truely Free license. I forked from NetBSD. I turned shit into gold with my Midas touch. People ought to be paying me to appear on television.

If nothing else catches their eye about open source software, maybe it would be the assurance that a team of experienced developers out there are developing the next generation of freely available information security tools (OpenSSH and OpenSSL, anyone?) that are already tightly integrated with a strong, BSD-based OS. We've already started working closely with several crypto-card manufacturers to write drivers for lightning-fast VPNs.

You are right about ESR, though. He's a nut.

Shameless....

[Anonymous Coward]

This story was shamelessly ripped from kuro5hin

see?

Lets give credit where credit is due

Re:Shameless....

[Surt]

oh the kuroshin jealousy is just so transparent it's painful to watch. many people who submit stories submit them to multiple sites, hoping to get noticed somewhere. slashdot just has better quality control than kuroshin, so it takes a little longer for the stories to get posted (not that slashdot quality is perfect, just better than kuroshin).

I think I understand now....

[evilviper]

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.

Is this the one with..

[antis0c]

..the nude commentary by Cowboyneal at end? .. No wait.. that was a drea.... nevermind.

Argh.. don't copy it..

[divert]

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..

Weeeeee!

[Leven Valera]

Clearly you'll want to go buy a big screen TV to watch this.

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.

Huge?

[DeadBugs]

"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?

I've seen it

[joeflies]

I think that the film plays linus fairly close to his public personality (carefree about the implications of linux, doing it because he likes it), and it does show raymond, perens, and tienman as the evangelists.

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.

Re:No sundance!

[sam_handelman]

Silence! This is slashdot! You will not speak of analog media here!

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 .NET is neat.

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