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Open Source Gets Its Own TV Show
ChocLinux writes "A South African organisation has produced what it claims is the first television series dedicated to promoting open source software. The first episode of the show included an interview with Richard Stallman, who founded the GNU project, and Robin Rowe, who runs the Linux Movies Group, which promotes the use of Linux in Hollywood."
Smallest audience share ever. Maybe it can get on CNBC after McEnroe.
...is the show itself open source? Can I re-edit the show?
where the Linux source gets its first period?
It is tentatively titled "When Penguins Attack"
On todays show "Configuring your TV to run open source Beowulf software" "In Soviet Russia Open Sources You!" "But can it play OGG?" "Welcoming our Open Source bearing Geek Overlords!"
Guaranteed to jump the shark in Season Six when Stallman opens a taco stand.
No g-news is good g-news unless its Gary Gnu's.
Go not unto/. for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (but have nothing to do with the question)
I can already see the line up: 10:30 PM - Barely Legal Slackware Camp 12:00 PM - Debian Does Slackware 1:30 PM - Little Redhat Riding Hood XXX series
Announcer: [whispering] He's really close now, but does he know it...? This is the third time his attention has gone to that object constructor... oh, he's getting that look in his eyes... his time's running short... can he make it eleven weeks in a row?
Geek [looks up from the computer screen]: Uh... I think, um, maybe the way IDataHandler::IDataHandler() is written right now... it, uh, might lead to an operation on a null pointer later on?
[A Siren goes off, balloons fall from the ceiling]
Announcer: And our reigning champion does it AGAIN! A special thank you to our challenger, who really kept it close this week. We'll be RIGHT BACK with the bonus round, but first, a word from our sponsors...
[cut to a noose hanging from the ceiling]
Voice-Over: Life boring? Feeling like THIS is in your future?
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Also coming soon, EMACS the show.
Be warned, you'll need to map Ctrl-Alt-Meta-Play to your remote in order to do anything useful with the show.
Vi pundits have also announced their own show. This one will automatically re-map all of the keys on your remote so that each key will have an unidentified cryptic function whose purpose is not revealed even after pressing the button.
Once the show starts, the viewer is greeted by a blank screen. This blank screen will remain indefinitely until the user figures out the remote-key combination to quit the program. Don't mess up, because then you might not be able to quit at all!
In order to actually watch the show, you will have to press an unidentified button on the remote which will allow you to watch the show.
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-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Remember, Richard Stallman loves you. He coded for your sins.
To convert to this great new religion, simply send a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope, stuffed with hundred-dollar bills, to the address on your screen:
...Disclaimer: This retarded comment is not affiliated with, not is it sponsored in any way, by RMS or the FSF. It's just a joke. So get over it, asshole.
As it is about open source, can I download the scripts from anywhere and upload my own alterations? Are the scripts under any form of version control? Is there a link to ScriptForge?
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