[CLUE-Talk] "Revolution OS" documentary

[Lynn Danielson]

The Denver Film Society will be presenting "Revolution OS" tomorrow
afternoon, Saturday, Oct. 20th, at 3:30 pm at the Starz Film Center.
The theater is located on the Auraria campus at the Tivoli.  

Below is a short description from the Denver Film Society's website.
Tickets may be ordered on-line.

http://www.denverfilm.org/revolutionos.html

"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."


I hope to see some of you there.  --Lynn