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South African Open Source TV Show

Posted by timothy on from the unkill-your-television dept.

visi writes "'Go_Open' is a 13-episode mainstream-aimed TV series about using open source software, funded by sources including South African entrepreneur and astronaut Mark Shuttleworth's foundation. It includes interviews with major open-source figures such as Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Jon 'maddog' Hall, and Bruce Perens, as well as case studies and discussions of both Shuttleworth's (Ubuntu Linux) and other South African and global projects that have successfully used open-source elements. Check out their site or download the series."

12 comments

  1. Tribe has spoken by turtled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You have been voted out, please go use commercial software now.

    That would be a real tribe...

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  2. Good job! by Celt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Slashdot affect + Bittorrent,
    The only thing slashdot does good ;)

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  3. Slow... by wlan0 · · Score: 1

    Already running slow. Anyone have a torrent of the torrent?

  4. crazy. by c0bw3b · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I just tried to load the www.go-opensource.org page three times in Safari (2.0, under OSX 10.4.1) and it crashed each time. Odd.

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    1. Re:crazy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      same here

  5. How entertaining... by suitepotato · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can see this in America.

    "Barbara, hurry up! I'm dying over here!"

    "Keey your shorts on Michael, I'm recompiling the antidote analysis software as fast as I can!"

    On second thought, no not really. More like...

    "What the hell does it mean /dev/cdrom not mounted? I have to f*ck this thing? Why did you have to be such a geek and not buy Windows with Fortran pre-loaded from the science supply shop like your brother? Michael? Michael? Oh great, the one person who can walk me through this idiot box to design an antidote is out cold from toxic shock."

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  6. here's a good one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How do you get these to play in Ubuntu? Seriously!

    1. Re:here's a good one by tomboy17 · · Score: 1

      I installed gvlc + my already existing installations of w32codecs etc. and was able to play with wxvlc /path/to/file.mp4

  7. omg by Deternal · · Score: 1

    what codec am I missing, totem mplayer and vlc all refused to play sound - according to totem the mp4 files does not even have sound included....

  8. Review please? by AussieVamp2 · · Score: 1

    Anyone seen this?

    Worth watching, or not?

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    1. Re:Review please? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Just finished wathcing first three episodes (downloaded all 13 overnight without problems via torrent).
      They cover blogging, id software games, render farms etc. - and everything on a really basic level, just enough for a joe sixpack.
      Actually this is very, very good - but the only reason to watch it for _me_ was just for fun of seeing good quality tv show with RMS covered as a star.
      My recommendation: download it, rip it and hand it to anyone you want to convince for using FOSS. Send it to your boss, mum and girlfriend (if you have one...). But if you are a regular slashdot reader you will be not surprised in any way.

    2. Re:Review please? by AussieVamp2 · · Score: 1

      ok, thanks

      not sure how excited the female parental or spousal unit would be to watch this though :)

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