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Movie Review: Revolution OS
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie. Wow the part about Cygnus was wonderful. The Open Source movement misses the point on freedom but that is an idealogical debate that movies like this are bound to spark. The producer was on TLLTS in about episode 179 or so and that was sooo good. I heard about the movie from google first and downloaded parts of it but I did actually buy it before the guy was on TLLTS. The Linux Code movie is also being pirated and I learned of and got it from google video now I want to buy it but it seems the company has gone belly up already. Free media and software companies need to do well and we need them to do very well. We need this stuff. The point of GNU FREE is not free as in cost. It is not even about better quality. The point of GNU FREE is not about making the rich CEOs of Red Hat and Novel even richer. It is FREEDOM FREEDOM all the time and in every way. All of the other points are just tools to acquire and spread that FREEDOM. BUY THIS MOVIE!Movie Review: Important insight into free market software.
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Movie Review: a valuable record
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll be upfront: one reason I like this documentary is that J.T.S. Moore included some of the photographs I contributed. In any case, the movie is a valuable historic record, showing many of the prominent figures in free and open source software in a direct way. They tell us how they see things in their own words, which you don't often get to see.
Even as something of an insider, I didn't expect the film to be as interesting as it turned out to be. You don't normally think of computer geeks as feature film material and I'm still surprised that it ever got made, much less sold on Amazon. Kudos to Moore and his team for giving us a very watchable film as well as a historic document.
Movie Review: Classic, well-produced documentary on a topic of our age
Summary: 5 Stars
Like it or not, hackers have been part of the profile of the computer age since its dawn. Mainstream non-insiders that don't code know little more about what programmers and hackers are thinking, formulating or from which perspective their reasoning comes. This documentary goes a far ways to bridge that gap and I felt very engaged while watching it. It's well produced (something I feel I can talk about with authority from having studied and from working within Video) does indeed incorporate a comfortable editorial logic and flow and includes well-photographed, well-cast, articulate and succint interviews that work with this documentary's focus. Bravo for the solid work.Movie Review: The interesting world of open-source and linux
Summary: 5 Stars
It is not often when you find a truly amazing and intriguing documentary but this is it! True, it is about Linux and it's history, but that does not mean you have to be a computer "geek" to enjoy it, although I'll admit it would help you understand it more. Everything is so well done, from the interviews, to the cinematography, and even to the research that went into the movie. I had know idea that Linux was even that big or part of this phenomenal computer movement, but know I feel completely versed about it! This is a must see for anyone, especially if you have an interest in computers.