[TriLUG] RevolutionOS Trailer

[Chris Rasch]

Mark Shuford wrote:

>Uhh... this is about a movie, not about Linux. 
>
>So it's OFF TOPIC. Please stop!!!
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>... and along the same lines of the reasoning that says if it contains the words windows a posting is off topic, just adding the word Linux to a post about movies doesn't make it about Linux.
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>(or is the movie about Linux. maybe you should have said so if that is the case...)
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>
Um, the title "Revolution OS" and the fact that it's being screened by 
trilug indicate to me that it probably has something to do with Linux, 
as a brief google search would confirm:


REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against 
the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the 
Open Source movement.

On June 1, 2001, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said "Linux is a cancer 
that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it 
touches."

Microsoft fears GNU/Linux, and rightly so. GNU/Linux and the Open Source 
& Free Software movements arguably represent the greatest threat to 
Microsoft's way of life. Shot in cinemascope on 35mm film in Silicon 
Valley, REVOLUTION OS tracks down the key movers and shakers behind 
Linux, and finds out how and why Linux became such a potent threat.

REVOLUTION OS features interviews with Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, 
Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael Tiemann, Larry 
Augustin, Frank Hecker, and Rob Malda. To view the trailer or the first 
eight minutes go to the *ifilm* 
<http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_multimedia/0,4470,2419320,00.html> 
website for REVOLUTION OS.

Companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Ogilvy & Mather, OSDN, and 
Dreamworks Animation have rented REVOLUTON OS for private theatrical 
screenings. It has also screened in numerous film festivals including 
South By Southwest Film Festival, the Atlanta Film & Video Festival, 
Boston Film Festival, and Denver International Film Festival. REVOLUTION 
OS won Best Documentary at both the Savannah Film & Video Festival and 
the Kudzu Film Festival.

REVOLUTION OS is available in the 35 mm motion picture format and runs 
85 minutes.

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