Revolution OS (2001)

Directors

J. T. S. Moore

Cast

Bill Gates, Brian Behlendorf, Bruce Perens, Eric S. Raymond, Larry Augustin, Linus Torvalds, Michael Tiemann, Susan Egan

The story

The film begins with glimpses of Raymond, a Linux IPO, Torvalds, the idea of Open Source, Perens, Stallman, then sets the historical stage in the early days of hackers and computer hobbyists when code was shared freely. It discusses how change came in 1978 as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, in his Open Letter to Hobbyists, pointedly prodded hobbyists to pay up. Stallman relates his struggles with proprietary software vendors at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, leading to his departure to focus on the development of free software, and the GNU Project.

Genres

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