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Movie Reviews of Revolution Os
Movie Review: Don't look so surprised
Summary: 4 Stars
This film actually follows the mainstream development and development methods of the vary software that is making it possible for you to read this review. Some people have a tendency to think that is the alternative to Microsoft; the reality, it is Microsoft that is the deviate along with a few other companies (However I must admit I have an admiration for AIX.)
So you will derive from this film software has started out open source and when companies started to button it up the people just moved on to other forms of creating and maintaining open systems.
The film is fun in its self as it lets those there were in the movement see themselves in retrospect and those that missed the boat to catch up. Too bad it cut short being 2002 to miss the inroads of Linux and Fodor both as replacement and coexistent in the information technology world of today.
Movie Review: Understanding the open source phenomenon
Summary: 4 Stars
Provides an excellent foundation for understanding the disruptive open source technology phenomenon, its cultural and community roots, and business models in the pursuit of freedom, innovation and renewed competition in a monopoly market.Movie Review: What a great movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This movies truly show you what is behind Microsoft, Linux and the open source community. I really recommend everyone in the IT field to watch it. No one should miss such a great movieMovie Review: Documentary intended for computer Geeks!
Summary: 4 Stars
If you;re geek enough to know (and appreciate) who Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, then this documentary is mandatory to understand the whole movement.Movie Review: Free software or Open source
Summary: 3 Stars
One of the sidestories of this movie is pitting the open source guys (Torvalds, Raymond, etc) against the Free software guys (Stallman,Tiemann). In the movie, the open source guys always seem to be coming out on top--bigger IPOs, more money, more prestige. A typical scene: Stallman is onstage trying to explain why "free software" is the preferred nomenclature, when one of Torvald's kids comes out and totally steals the scene by toddling across the stage, all cute and cuddly. All eyes on Torvalds--while Stallman valiently presses on, talking to a roomful of people who are too busy cooing over the toddler to listen to him.
However, after re-watching this movie after several years, what stuck me is how subsequent events turned out. All the free software guys are basically doing better than ever, whereas the Open sourcers have all had to reinvent themselves several times. Perens has wandered from company to company. Larry Augustine's VA linux was the biggest boom an the bigest flameout. Poor Eric Raymond can only watch his influence slip away bit by bit, as he issues ever more bizzare screeds in some desperate search for relevance.
Its fashionable in certain circles to dismiss Richard Stallman as being some sort of ideological nut-job, but lets please give him the respect due: Richard Stallman created our world.