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

[Anne McCadden <amccadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I want one and you don't to know what happens after that huh?  How it
got (or will get) to the ACLUG meeting, you haven't a clue?  ;-)

David Carmichael wrote:
> 
> Who want to be first and make sure the others get to view the
> tape(s)?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > 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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> >
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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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