[CLUE-Talk] Fwd: Linux Documentary

[Jeffery Cann]

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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.

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.

WHEN: Saturday Oct.20, 2001 - 3:30 pm

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.
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