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Lessig, Stallman in New Documentary
Alternative Freedom is a documentary on intellectual property rights featuring lots of interviews with folks like Stallman and Lessig, as well as people like DJ Danger Mouse (creator of the Grey Album). They have a trailer available, but if you're in NYC the movie is now showing. If anyone manages to go, I'd love to see some real reviews of it.
I am interested in seeing the movie. I do not live in NY, nor did I see any mention of a way to obtain a copy. Does anyone know when private copies will be available?
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Fahrenheit 9/11 was aimed at the "I'm too stupid to actually educate myself on policy, so I'll watch this movie by a fat sweaty retard and then ACT like I know what the fuck is going on crowd"
That "fat sweaty retard" made $12,000,000 making fun of the government?? What is retarded about that?
As for the movie, yup, it was over the top, but so what? (And yes I called it a movie not a documentary on purpose!) The pro-war-on-terror bullshit and rhetoric that spews from Washington is just as over the top, and has made Dick Cheney and friends far more money, at the expense of the American public both in dollars and in lives.
Moore made a movie, that's what he does for a living, that's no secret. That it raised some important questions is all the better. The worst thing anyone can say about it is that its been marketed as a genuine documentary; but on some level I find it that its part of the parody -- like "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" being dressed up as a news show.
That some people take it as the 'gospel truth' is unfortunate, but even that is far less damaging to America than beleiving what the governments been telling you.
People don't watch "serious documentaries" in America. Perhaps the *best* way to generate awareness that something is wrong is with comedy, parody, and over the top nonsense -- at least its entertaining enough that lots of people will watch it, and if people talk about it, or start having conversations about just what was true what wasn't, and just how over the top it was, it will accomplish far more than some dry documentary presented on the history channel that nobody watched and nobody talks about ever has.
Stallman has nothing to do with Open Source? Fine, he has a major semantic hair up his butt about the term "Open Source," but the whole idea of "Free Software" is his raison entière d'etre. Methinks this is why some people roll their eyes. Okay, we "get it." Now can we stop splitting hairs over it, puhhhleeaase without devloving into some asininely pedantic semiotic circle-jerk?
If the GPL was about 100% freedom and choice, it would be called the BSD license.
The GPL (especially the latest draft) has less to do with freedom than it does promoting RMS' (and by proxy the FSF) personal ideology.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Haliburton comes to mind easily.... Add A few dozen politicians, just about anyone in the "defense" industry.....
- AMW
If the GPL was about 100% freedom and choice, it would be called the BSD license.
Well, there's freedom and then there's freedom. It is generally not desirable that people have the freedom to take other people's freedom away, and this is what the GPL addresses which BSD does not.
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