[Oriya-group] Re:The Code - Linux {Movie}...

[phatak at iopb.res.in]

Dear Sobin,

How long is the movie? How about screening it in the next ilug-bbsr 
meeting?

Phatak

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, K. A. Sobin wrote:

> Hi,
>    I got the movie. want to share it with you fokes...
> 
> sobin
> 
> some comments abt. the film:
> ----------------------------
> " Linux is more than just an alternative operating system. It's also a
> culture with its own ethics, gods, myths and heroes."
> 
> " Through this film, Linux is traced from its early days as a hobby project
> of Linus Torvalds's, through its rapid rise in popularity and number of
> users, to the dot-com boom and bust, and beyond. The differing ideologies of
> Richard "GNU" Stallman and Eric "Open Source" Raymond are also explored.
> Anybody who has been following Linux for very long, reading websites like
> Slashdot and Eric Raymond's "Cathedral and the Bazaar" essay will probably
> already know most this. However, for those people, the film does offer a
> chance to see and hear these Linux icons talk--putting faces and voices to
> people who might otherwise have been just words on a screen.
> 
> Despite its Finnish origin, most of this documentary is in English--either
> the naturally-spoken English of most of the Linux personalities, or a
> heavily-accented voiceover narrator--with Finnish subtitles. Only a few of
> the interviewees (Linus Torvalds's parents, employees of Chinese Linux
> corporations) are untranslated (since, after all, the show was originally
> aimed at Finns)."
> 
> " The film, explores the human side of the open source and free software
> movements, telling the inside story of the hackers and programmers rebelling
> against the corporate machine." 
> 

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