[Olug-list] [science-film] tomorrow "Revolution OS" (20/10 at 16:15 in Store Aud.) (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:05:00 +0200
From: Cristian Prisacariu <cristi@ifi.uio.no>
To: science-film@ifi.uio.no
Subject: [science-film] tomorrow "Revolution OS" (20/10 at 16:15 in Store Aud.)

Dear science film fans,

tomorrow, Tuesday (Tirsdag) 20 October at
16.15 in the Store Auditorium of Informatic building in gaustadalleen 23.

The film will be:
"Revolution OS" (85 min)

Some of us (especially GNU/Linux fans) have seen this movie but it is
very nice so we decided to see it one more time.

!! This movie would be especially interesting for Informatics students
and all other Linux and free software fans. !!

Below you find more info about the movie (eg. trailer).

Best wishes,
Science Film Club @ IFI

IMDB entry:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0308808/

official web site:
http://www.revolution-os.com/

More info on Richard Stallman and FSF (Free Software Foundation) and GNU
http://www.stallman.org/

trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3zvc2dG5Y

short description:
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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.
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A list with the films is available as shared file for the members of the
science-film@ifi.uio.no list and is open to your suggestions. (you need
to log in to your mailing list account)
https://sympa.uio.no/ifi.uio.no/d_read/science-film/Database_of_films.txt
Movie requests are welcomed.
!! You are also welcome to forward these announcements to whomever is
interested.

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Have a nice day from
Cristian Prisacariu
member of PMA group (Precise Modeling and Analysis)
at Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo
http://www.ifi.uio.no/forskning/grupper/pma/
Also visit my home page at
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~cristi