[lug] Linux Film

[J. Wayde Allen]

On 17 Oct 2001, David Bryson wrote:

> The International Film festival is here this week, and they will be
> showing a documentary on Linux, please read below for more info. Hope to
> see lots of geeks there!
> Dave B.
> 
> 
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> 
> To: dbryson
> Subject: film
> Date: 05 Oct 2001 19:03:51 -0600
> 
> thought you might be interested in this film playing at the denver's
> international film festival...
> 
> Revolution OS
>    Documentary
>    USA
>    Director: J.T.S. Moore
>    Producer: J.T.S. Moore
>    Screenplay: J.T.S. Moore
>    Cinematographer: J.T.S. Moore
>    Print Source:
>    2001/color/88 min.
>    Anyone who picks up a newspaper or watches the news on TV knows
>    that software giant Microsoft is facing legal problems because of
>    accusations that its business practices are monopolistic. Anyone who's
>    ever used a PC has at one time or another been frustrated by Microsoft
>    Windows and other software products. Revolution OS looks at the
>    "anti-Microsoft," the open source software movement, techies who
>    want software to be freely available to anyone who needs it, with no (or
>    very little) consideration for profit. As director JTS Moore says, "at its
>    core, the open source movement is about hundreds of thousands of
>    hackers and programmers around the world trying to throw off the yoke
>    of the most powerful corporation on Earth." The film traces history of
>    the movement through interviews with some of its key figure, including
>    Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system. It also explores
>    the culture of the open source software community with clips from
>    various events, including "Installfest" parties, where people bring their
>    computers to get free Linux tech support, and "Refund Day" protests,
>    where users demand reimbursement of fees added to the price of their
>    computers for pre-installed Microsoft applications. As entertaining for
>    "newbies" as for the computer-obsessed personalities it profiles, this
>    documentary about the high-tech was, ironically, shot on 35-mm film
>    rather than digital video because Moore feels that "despite the
>    delusional hype of the digital video community," film is still a superior
>    medium.
> 
> WHEN: Saturday Oct.20, 2001 - 3:30 pm