[aclug-L] Re: Revolution OS / Startup.com

[David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Who want to be first and make sure the others get to view the
tape(s)?

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> Michael Moore
> J. H. Weaver
> Clint Brubakken
> Koji Hayakawa
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> Revolution OS
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> > J.T.S. Moore        2001        85 MINS, Color
> In opposition to large corporations like Microsoft, many
> independent software creators are freely sharing program source
> code and collaborating internationally via the internet. This
> revolution has been dubbed the Open Source Movement and its
story,
> told in this documentary by J.T.S. Moore, features interviews
with
> computer visionaries, proponents of free software and the
creators
> of the Linux operating system including Linus Torvalds, Eric
> Raymond and Richard Stallman. "It's a testament to Moore's skill
as
> a documentaries that he manages to encapsulate the entirety of
the
> open source software movement and keep non-techheads awake
> simultaneously" - Austin Chronicle. TVPG
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> Startup.com
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> Chris Hegedus    Jehane Noujaim        2001            103 MINS,
> Color
> Appeared at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival
> This fascinating documentary, co-directed by Chris Hegedus (THE
WAR
> ROOM) and Jehane Noujaim, follows the dizzying highs and final,
> painful lows of a fledgling internet company. Founded by friends
> Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman, govWorks.com was supposed to
> revolutionize the way people interacted with government
> bureaucracy; the film chronicles the pair as they secure
financing,
> make deals and steadily increase the size of their empire as much
> through energetic enthusiasm and luck as through talent. When
> things start to fall apart - deadlines are missed, revenues fall
> and competing enterprises seem primed to overtake them - the
> rapport between the two men becomes strained until a previously
> unimaginable rift occurs. "One of the most involving pieces of
> eavesdropping you're likely to experience" - Elvis Mitchell, The
> New York Times. (2001) R (AL)
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