http://www.revolution-os.com/ 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. 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. REVOLUTION OS is available in the 35 mm motion picture format and runs 85 minutes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308808/ My Kid Set Me Up to Watch This Documentary, 16 March 2004 Author: Ralph Michael Stein (lawprof@pipeline.com) from New York, N.Y. My fourteen-year-old boy is very much into computers (that's hardly surprising). This summer he'll be back with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth program studying - I don't really know exactly what. It's some kind of computer program, I just sign the check. He's very much both anti-Microsoft and anti-Bill Gates. He's also quite pro-Linux, the emblem of the "Open Source" movement whose adherents regard its underlying virtues with a devotion normally reserved by the religious for the icons of their faiths. So he wanted me to see "Revolution OS," a documentary about the Linux operating system and the open source movement that spawned the increasingly important competitor to both Microsoft and Apple. This is a very interesting documentary which I, clueless as to the secrets of operating systems, readily understood. I watched it with the barest comprehension of Linux or the philosophy underlying the open source concept. Much credit to the filmmaker for not only explaining the seminal value of open source - the commitment to free interchange of ideas with minimal incorporation of legal protection for intellectual property - but for also succinctly allowing contrasting values and competing personalities screen time. This documentary is a very concise but excellent guide for the uninitiated into a world usually the arcane preserve of specialists most adept at talking to each other. The Open Source movement is a work in progress threatened by the real risk of those benefiting from openness legally protecting their own "added value" and thus, in a sense, betraying their benefactors. Several of those interviewed pursue their open source values almost as a creed, the commitment to computers taking the place of more traditional dogma. Anyone interested in a major intellectual counterpoint to the dominance of both Microsoft and the role of law in insuring proprietary benefits for innovators should see "Revolution OS": no manual required. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A9GLO/103-2022882-5992640?v=glance REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers and computer programmers who rebelled against Microsoft and the idea of proprietary software to create GNU, Linux, and the Open Source movement. Shot on location in Silicon Valley on 35mm film and in widescreen, REVOLUTION OS captures an offbeat group of characters who are three-parts libertarian, two-parts communist, and one-part bad garage band. All Customer Reviews Average Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars 5 out of 5 stars Important insight into free market software., October 6, 2004 Reviewer: EvilNight - See all my reviews This is a well put together retrospective detailing the motives, methods, and history of the free software movement and the open source movement. Best of all, it is entirely told through interviews with the community leaders who have been directly involved in it (namely Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Linus Torvalds, and several others). It is straightforward, interesting, and very well edited, with an excellent soundtrack. It makes a great follow-up to Robert Cringley's "Triumph of the Nerds" and "Nerds 2.01." It is also notably apolitical, painting a very factual, unbiased, orderly picture of events (and certainly one that will anger those who like to rewrite history). It does get a bit thick towards the end, focusing on the business aspect, but not enough to jump the shark. This film is a very good at getting across the principles of open software, in a way even a non-technical person can understand. Highly recommended. Reviewer: D. Mitchell (Sammamish, WA USA) - See all my reviews A stupid, propogandistic and self indulgant documentary about Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond. Linus is a good guy, but these other folks are just demagogues of the computer age. I particularly find their hacker interpretation of history insulting. It ignores all the hardworking professional engineers and programmers who really did invent computers and operating sytsems, and makes us think that scruffy hackers at MIT did anything that mattered. Reviewer: A viewer I am no fan of Microsoft, but this movie stinks, needs to be more documentary, less ranting interviews, tell us the history, the startup, the challenges etc...... Reviewer: Jim Howard (August, GA United States) - This is an excellent follow-up to a set of three movies entitled "Triumph of the Nerds", which details the development and successes of Microsoft, Apple, the Internet, IBM PCs, Altair, etc, but which came out in the mid-1990s, and doesn't mention much about Linux. Also, the mood of all these movies is similar. They belong together for a great summary of the development of personal computing since the 1970s, and all are full of interviews with the key players. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EVOLUTION OS special edition DVD is CSS-Encryption Free and Region Free and includes the following features: - 70 minutes of additional interview footage with Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Brian Behlendorf, Bruce Perens, and others. - Director's audio commentary - Theatrical trailers - "The Free Software Song" music video - 113 pages of GNU Project and Open Source documents - Still Image Gallery - Biographies - Music & Effects only Audio Track - 2.35:1 Letterboxed image - Digital Stereo Surround Sound - Interactive Menus - Easter Eggs! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1' What is OS 2' What is Open Source 4' Richard 5' passwords 6' 70's, 80's Proprietery model, closing software 7' Bill Gates open letter 9' fixing bugs impossible 10' domintor of users 11' Foundation of FREE OS/UNIX GNU=GNU is Not Unix 12' BSD, Berkley licenced UNIX kernel from AT&T 13' modularity, by 1991 replaced all of them 14' Michael ??? e-macs tutorial/compiler Standford/Sun stations 15' Free Software foundation GNU divided and dominated 16' parser generator, C++ parser 17' licence/not public domain the idea of copy-left 18' GNU 19' taking the stand-point of community GPL, phylosophy ERL consulting and services 20' GNU Manifesto proposal how to make money 21' proprietary software is a monopoly 2-4 times support in 1/2-1/4 time 22' Cygnus - 1st GNU-compiler, toolkit, but no free kernel 23' Linus personal goal 24' unstable, but more stable than production OS 25' collection of ??? and comm. ?? 26' asynhronous kernel is almost impossible to debug Linux has phylosophical relation to GNU 27' symbiosis Linux-GNU 28' 1992 29' can work on a workstation 1.5 times faster for the cost of 2000 istead of 7000 30' bussines case GNU/Linux 31' first distributions of Linux 1st CD version distribution of Linux 32' Linux should have been a disaster Apache Web Server (HTTP) Server Project adaptation curve of Apache and Internet 33' server farm becomes cost effective, distributed computing 66% 34' Service providers choose Linux (also contributed to Apache) hosts more than one website on one machine 35' Redhat 36' toilet explosion 1995 37' Venture capitalists - still scared 38' 1997 paper: Chatedral and Bazaar 39' extrimely relieble software peer2peer reviews, feedback, peer review process close design ... 40' Netscape goes open source Frank Hacker Netscape 4.6 41' Tim O'Railey 43' Netscape bussines case: why to go open source a new paper 45' anouncement Jan 22 Mozilla 46' Larry Leap of Feith? 47' Free software, wrong message concept of Open Source 48' Free:Open = good society : powerful and reliable software, mainstream software 50' draft of Open Source Debbian Manifesto 1. Liberty 2. Source code 51' 3. Derived work permitted 4. Integrity of Author 5. No discrimination 6. Usable in bussines/schools 7. Tranfereble licence 8. Cannot be .. to a 9. distribution 10. 53' L&OP pick up the momentum 54' open window of opportunity 1998 customer list more and more impressive Forbes title plage: Linus 55' OS in the news, MS released some source code 56' Unix user groups 57' Computer Literacy Bookstore, workshops 58' LA Times: MS is not a dream (it was taken for granted) 59' article: Australian got money back for an unused WINDOWS OS 60' licence: you can receive a refund/PROCHOICE Nick Moffitt and Chris D'Bona 61' get lost 62' MS welcomes the Linux community communist party sharing = pirate 63' basis of society 64' 65' Russia - to similar to communism 66' 1999, the revolution goes prime time 69' boring talk 70' RedHat goes public 72' Award session 74' Linux=somehow modified GNU 76' they are getting rich 80' Linus not cashing in final thought subversive clever way ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Stallman Founder of GNU project Individual freedom Linus Torvalds Creator of Linux Kernel Bruce Perens Author of Open Source definition Michael Tiemann co-Founder of Cygnus Solutions Larry Augustin co-Founder of VA-Linux Systems Eric Raymond author of The Chetedral and Bazzar Brian Behlendorf co-Founnder, President Frank Hecker former Netscape System Engineer Rob Malda ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----+------+-------------+-------------+---------+---------+ year| ver. |lines of code|num. of users|sold CD's|reg.users| ----+------+-------------+-------------+---------+---------+ 1980| 0 | | | | | ... | | | | | | 1991| 0.01 | 10.000 | 0ne | Three years of infancy 1992| 0.96 | 40.000 | 1.000 | | | 1993| 0.99 | 100.000 | 20.000 |1st Linux distribution on CD-rom | | | | | | 1995| 1.2 | 250.000 | 500.000 | | | 1996| | | | 450.000 | 20.000?| 1997| 2.1 | 800.000 | 3.5M | 750.000 | 40.000?| 1998| 2.110| 1.5M | 7.5M | | 40.000?| 1999| 2.2 | | 12M | | 50.000?| 2000| | | | | 100.000?| 2001| ? | | | | 100.000?| 2002| | | | | 130.000?| 2003| | | | | 138.000?| 2004| | | | | 138.000?| 2005| | | 18M | | 149.000 | 2006| | | | | | 2007| | | | | | 2008| | | | | | 2009| | | | | | 2010| | | | | | ----+------+-------------+-------------+---------+---------+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Distributions of Linux (and support, see http://distrowatch.com): ----------------------------------------------------------------- Slackware Linux (za eksperte in hobby) GNU Debbian Linux (GNU) RedHat Linux (ameriski Enterprise, Fedora je test za RedHat) SuSe Linux (nemski, kupil Novell) Mandrake Linux (francoski) Knoppix FreeBSD ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You are registered Linux user number 377153. 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