FC: "Revolution OS" movie tells open source vs. Microsoft tale

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:41:26 -0700
To: declan () well com
From: dano <dano () well com>
Subject: movie about Linux, GNU and Open Source

Declan,

I don't recall seeing mention of this on Politech previously and a search 
of Politechbot doesn't show it. If you've already mentioned it, oh well.
It's playing this weekend in Santa Monica, Calif., next weekend in 
Pasadena, Calif. and continuing elsewhere in the US:
<http://www.revolution-os.com/>

"REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against 
Microsoft and created 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 Linux, and rightly so. Linux and the Open Source movement 
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."

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