Revolution OS
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Revolution OS can be a documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and also the open source and totally free application movements. It features several interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs (and hackers-cum-entrepreneurs), including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf.
The film begins in medias res with an IPO, and then sets the historical stage by showing the beginnings of computer software development back in the day when application was shared on paper tape for the cost from the paper itself. It then segues to Bill Gates’s Available Letter to Hobbyists in which he asks Computer Hobbyists to not share, but to buy software. (This letter was written by Gates when Microsoft was still based in Arizona and spelled “Micro-Soft”.)
Richard Stallman then explains how and why he left the MIT Lab for Artificial Intelligence so that you can devote his life towards the improvement of totally free software program, as effectively as how he began with all the GNU project. Linus Torvalds is interviewed on his advancement on the Linux kernel as properly as about the GNU/Linux naming controversy and Linux’s further evolution, including its commercialization. Richard Stallman remarks on some with the ideological aspects of available supply vis-á-vis Communism and capitalism and well as on many aspects on the advancement of GNU/Linux.
Michael Tiemann (interviewed in a desert) tells how he met Stallman and got an early version of Stallman’s GCC and founded Cygnus Solutions. Larry Augustin tells how he combined the resulting GNU computer software plus a typical PC to create a UNIX-like Workstation which cost 1 third the price of a workstation by Sun Microsystems even though it was 3 times as effective.
His narrative includes his early dealings with venture capitalists, the eventual capitalization and commodification of Linux for his personal business, VA Linux, and ends with its IPO. Frank Hecker of Netscape tells how Netscape executives released the source code for Netscape’s browser, 1 with the signal events which created Open Supply a force being reckoned with by company executives, the mainstream media, and also the public at large.
