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Hey Guys,

I watched one of the best documentary I have seen in a long while. It is very interesting. It is called Revolution OS.

 

It starts off with Richard Stallman in a Artificial Intelligence lab at MIT (not sure, I think it was MIT), where they where developing an Operating System. When the administration wanted passwords, which they hated all around. So he leaves and decides to create an operating system like Unix. He calls it GNU (Ga-Noo), it stands for GNU Not Unix. He allowed the software to be free, and open. He wrote the C complier, and immediately received responses, and revisions. Later on, when he was towards the end of finishing up the OS, he needed the final piece, the kernel. Meanwhile Linus Travolds was writing a kernel that was similar to Unix, because he was use to using it (Unix), and so on. He called it Linux. Since the kernel was open-source and free, the GNU project took a hold of it and a few years later finished their GNU\Linux operating system.

 

This is packed with all sorts of information, it is very very interesting. I recommend you guys rent a copy, or buy it. It opened my eyes to all sorts of things.

 

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Revolution_OS/60025132?strackid=4598f39e910df252_0_srl&strkid=974928412_0_0&trkid=438381

 

http://www.opensource.org/

http://www.gnu.org/

http://www.fsf.org/

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

 

Any feedback? Do you guys have any other Docs. that are related to this? Please share!

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That is just a short synopsis I wrote. It does not end there.

 

Something tells me that movie didn't win most entertaining award? Or any award for that matter?

 

http://www.revolution-os.com/index.html

 

Companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, Wipro, Ogilvy & Mather, OSTG, 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.

 

 

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That is just a short synopsis I wrote. It does not end there.

 

I wonder if it'd be grossly ironic if I pirated this movie.

 

I shall find it somewhere if it's free, looks like an awesome view. I assume it's free as it's 35mm..

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That is just a short synopsis I wrote. It does not end there.

 

I wonder if it'd be grossly ironic if I pirated this movie.

 

I shall find it somewhere if it's free, looks like an awesome view. I assume it's free as it's 35mm..

 

I thought about it, then I thought, well I am a hypocrite.

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