Revolution OS: History of Linux & Open Source | Documentary (2001)

How did the open source movement start? This documentary interviews Richard Stallman, who joined MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971 and founded the GNU Project there. This evolved into the Free Software Foundation and spun off the "Open Source" we know today.

During this time, one of Stallman's admirers, Linus Torvalds, created a new operating system called Linux, a freely distributed software that took the market by storm and, ironically, led to the biggest IPO in history at the time (LNUX) in 1999 before losing the desktop war.

We enjoyed this because it connected all the dots for us and even covered some of Netscape's open-source launch here (from the last documentary we posted, "Code Rush").

Rating: 🍿🍿🍿🍿
Length: 1h 25m
Director: J. T. S. Moore
License: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal

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[sonnynomnom]

"Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is sort of like giving the Han Solo Award to the rebel fleet."

lololol so savage but spot on 😂

[Matt]

Bill Gate's saying you steal the software, So did you, you idiot. What you did at Palo Alto and Xerox is the same damn thing.