[NBLUG/talk] Re: [NBLUG/Announce] Reminder: REVOLUTION OS tomorrow afternoon!

ME dugan at passwall.com
Fri Mar 14 09:48:01 PST 2003


If you have never been to SSU, or would like more details and directions
on how to get there, and once on campus, how to locate the building and
room where this showing will be taking place, please check this URL.

http://www.nblug.org/directions/movie.html

-ME


Eric Eisenhart said:
> WHAT: NBLUG Special Event
> TOPIC: REVOLUTION OS Screening
> WHERE: Sonoma State Campus Schulz Info Center, Room 2015
> WHEN: Saturday, March 15th, 2003 @ 2:00PM
>
> This is a Special Event in an unusual location.  This is the same building
> as our InstallFests, but in a room on the second floor.  Sorry, but no
> food
> allowed.
>
> The movie runs for about an hour and a half, and we plan to start it right
> at 2:00PM, so plan to show up around 1:40PM.
>
> We'll be showing this on a large projection television; we were hoping to
> show the special edition DVD, but it's not shipping until a week after our
> screening.
>
>     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.  To view the trailer or the
> first
>     eight minutes go to the ifilm website for REVOLUTION OS.
>
>     http://www.revolution-os.com/
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