Revolution OS est un film documentaire datant de 2001 qui retrace l'histoire des mouvements GNU, Linux, Open Source et des logiciels libres et dans lequel plusieurs personnalités de l'informatique sont interviewées, comme Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker et Brian Behlendorf. Il a été réalisé par J. T. S. Moore .Synopsis
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 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.
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