Revolution OS

Starring:Linus Torvalds, Richard M. Stallman, Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Larry Augustin, Michael Tiemann, Brian Behlendorf, Frank Hecker, Chris DiBona, Nick Moffitt, Rob Malda, Donnie Barnes, Susan Egan, Marc Merlin, Terry Egan, Lisa Corsetti, David Ljung, JosÃ© Medeiros (II), Russ Emerson, Patrick Devine (II), Richard Stallman, The GNU/Stallmans
Director: J.T.S. Moore
Studio: Wonderview Productions
Product Type: DVD

Description

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers and computer programmers who rebelled against Microsoft and the idea of proprietary software to create GNU, Linux, and the Open Source movement. Shot on location in Silicon Valley on 35mm film and in widescreen, REVOLUTION OS captures an offbeat group of characters who are three-parts libertarian, two-parts communist, and one-part bad garage band.

Customer Reviews:

A wonderful compilation .......2007-07-04

A wonderful documentary about the GNU movement and birth of Linux. Some hard to find interviews and recordings of some key events. The documentary has been very well prepared, with all necessary details in place.
I read Eric Raymond's Cathedral and the Bazaar straight after the book, which led me to rethink my business model. I would recommend it to all young entrepreneurs.

Revolution OS.......2007-03-09

Great movie. Wow the part about Cygnus was wonderful. The Open Source movement misses the point on freedom but that is an idealogical debate that movies like this are bound to spark. The producer was on TLLTS in about episode 179 or so and that was sooo good. I heard about the movie from google first and downloaded parts of it but I did actually buy it before the guy was on TLLTS. The Linux Code movie is also being pirated and I learned of and got it from google video now I want to buy it but it seems the company has gone belly up already. Free media and software companies need to do well and we need them to do very well. We need this stuff. The point of GNU FREE is not free as in cost. It is not even about better quality. The point of GNU FREE is not about making the rich CEOs of Red Hat and Novel even richer. It is FREEDOM FREEDOM all the time and in every way. All of the other points are just tools to acquire and spread that FREEDOM. BUY THIS MOVIE!

a valuable record.......2007-02-07

I'll be upfront: one reason I like this documentary is that J.T.S. Moore included some of the photographs I contributed. In any case, the movie is a valuable historic record, showing many of the prominent figures in free and open source software in a direct way. They tell us how they see things in their own words, which you don't often get to see.

Even as something of an insider, I didn't expect the film to be as interesting as it turned out to be. You don't normally think of computer geeks as feature film material and I'm still surprised that it ever got made, much less sold on Amazon. Kudos to Moore and his team for giving us a very watchable film as well as a historic document.

boring.......2006-01-28

This movie is mostly interviews about free software philosophy, open source philosophy, and the rise of linux in the business world. I found the film dull, and I am a linux geek. I do give it three stars because I can see where some may be entertained or informed by the discussions the interviewer had with Stallman, Torvalds, etc. My wife now better understands why I wear a tux hat :) I also enjoyed watching Stallman's manerisms and listening to him speak, since I've heard that he may have Asperger's Syndrome (as does my son, which is why that interested me).

Don't look so surprised.......2006-01-12

This film actually follows the mainstream development and development methods of the vary software that is making it possible for you to read this review. Some people have a tendency to think that is the alternative to Microsoft; the reality, it is Microsoft that is the deviate along with a few other companies (However I must admit I have an admiration for AIX.)

So you will derive from this film software has started out open source and when companies started to button it up the people just moved on to other forms of creating and maintaining open systems.

The film is fun in its self as it lets those there were in the movement see themselves in retrospect and those that missed the boat to catch up. Too bad it cut short being 2002 to miss the inroads of Linux and Fodor both as replacement and coexistent in the information technology world of today.

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