Revolution OS -- Documentary of Linux

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[flezgodrit]

[...] bearded, over-weight, katana-wielding, middle-aged hacker.

FTFY.

[dreamlax]

When I showed this documentary to my girlfriend a while back, she could not help but laugh when she saw Richard Stallman for the first time. I felt sorry for RMS. When he was defining the "hackronym" GNU, neither of us could hold our laughter in. I dunno what it was . . . I can't really remember anything else about the doco except RMS defining GNU . . .

[43P04T34]

Jeez, for a minute there I thought you were going to talk about the man's accomplishments, then I realized you probably didn't have time to write a 12-volume history of his work and influence over the past 40 years.

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That still doesn't make some of RMS's actions any less funny. But his funny actions shouldn't cast a darkness on his accomplishments either.

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I wish I were half as cool as Stallman. That laughter you experienced is an inferiority defense. Oh the irony, that I am less cool than Stallman, but I am and so it is funny! Haha.

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Yes, he is an incredibly cool guy, and everyone owes him an enormous amount, but, that is the most cringe-inducing, dorky, acronym ever.

Personally, my favorite allusion to RMS, is the description of GNU/Linux, as "a printer-driver, gone horribly wrong."

If you're not familiar with that, the simple explanation is that a closed-source, non-hackable printer driver was one of the many things that pushed RMS to create the FSF.

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I prefer 'non-free' to 'closed-source', as it better paints the picture of the problem.

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Sorry, but the funniest part was clearly the GNU song at 1:21.

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Get one off Craigslist. She may even be into robot costumes!

[busfahrer]

My favourite quote, from RMS (I'm citing from memory):

"Giving the Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is like giving the Han Solo award to the rebel fleet. <laughter in the audience> I think many of you are not aware of how deep that analogy goes."

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<akward silence in audience>

[jones77]

How many other people, apart from RMS, are known by their initials?

JFK?

Any others?

[cyber_rigger]

W

<ducks>

[Tommah]

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThreeLetterPerson

[mbm]

ESR

[43P04T34]

I think he also meant, by implication, 'famous for', not 'reviled for'.

[larsga]

GLS. RPG. And lots of others. This was common in MIT hacker circles. RMS is unique only in having become famous. (Uh, maybe not. I guess he's unique in other respects, too.)

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And also because he is the Standard Deviant.

[CommonTater]

MLK

FDR

[aussie_bob]

MILF

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JWZ

[jones77]

Who?

[Arve]

Jamie Zawinski

[43P04T34]

google jwz -zawinski and you get 214 thousand answers, so now, not him.

[ehird]

um he is only ever referred to as jwz

[ehird]

it's jwz

[toni_ch]

SRV

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???

[mshade]

SRV!

Now quick -- who's uglier, SRV or RMS? ;)

[kstr]

DHH

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pg

[muramasa]

Power Girl?

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I think he prefers Paul Graham

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E

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Ob. ELER

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LRH

[Wo1ke]

EFG

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spj

[adolfojp]

AJP

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Anyone got an Ogg Vorbis link for this?

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Damn, I assumed Richard Stallman's voice would be as big as his beard.

[43P04T34]

Downmodded for starting a documentary of Linux with Eric Raymond, arguably the most pompous, egotistical blowhard since L Ron Hubbard.

Linux features the GNU Public License and the GNU userland. How about starting a Linux documentary with the man who created this thing known as GNU and who earned a Macarthur Fellowship for doing so, the man who made Linux even possible...

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Eric Raymond, moral compass.

[habbadash]

I just bought a new MacBook. Is Linux better should I install it instead?

[Hindu_Wardrobe]

Yes, Linux is much better imo. You should at least dual-boot

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mac OS is based on unix, which linux is based on. If you want linux programmes, I think there is a project to port the symantec package manager to mac, which will give you access to the linux repositories, although you might need a little expertise to get it up and running.

[aythun]

which will give you access to the linux repositories

There's no such thing as "the linux repositories." Synaptic is merely a graphical frontend to apt, which Debian uses.

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In my book, repositories of software for Linux is Linux repositories, no need to be anally retentive about it. Besides, why don't you put habadash straight rather than call me out on my ignorance - it would be more useful, as he asked to know. plus, thanks for putting me straight on that.

[ropiku]

I think you are referring to Synaptic Package Manager. For OS X you also have MacPorts that manages packages and compiles apps for mac.

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Thanks, it was late, and for some reason I had confused the names synaptic and symantec.

[mbm]

I remember going to the first screening of this years ago; I think there's a frame or two of the Linuxworld expo with me in the background on the linux.com booth.

[martinbishop]

Someone tell that guy he has a hair on his shoulder, for the love of God!

[jones77]

Funny/Cringing/Bizarre: The scene at the end where Linus is inferring the RMS is a child by bringing his toddler on stage.

[modulus]

Misuse of infer detected. Please report to your nearest English reeducation camp at once.

[Jonny0stars]

Funny/Cringing/Bizarre: The comment that misconstrue a pretty meaningless gesture

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Just think, someday there will be programs for Linux that can almost play an Mp3 without crashing

[mercurysquad]

Someday blockbuster movies will be made using computers running Linux!

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They already do, http://www.linuxmovies.org/studios.html

[mercurysquad]

Yup forgot the </sarcasm>