Last weekend I watched Revolution OS after renting it from Netflix. It is a documentary that looks at the birth of the free software movement by Richard Stallman and goes in to the light history of Linux. They also talk to founders and original employee’s of VA Linux and Red Hat. After watching it for the first 20 minutes they got to Linux Tolvalds who founded the Linux Kernel. The Film also spends a little bit of time talking to the difference of GNU / Linux / Open Source. They also give the drafter of the OSS license a good amount of time, Eric Raymond. It also reminded me about Linux clubs we used to have when I lived in Washington DC. There used to be installfests but now I don’t see to much of that. This is something that needs to come back!
The film is overall very dry material but very interesting. If you are a geek it is a great film but remember it was shot in 2001 so don’t expect to much.
