Revolution OS

For a wannabe geek like myself, this film (Netflix #4, still within the free trial period! — and my housemates who share the account have seen five more and we still have three days to go on our “trial”) is very inspirational. It has extensive interviews with luminaries like Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, and others. For anyone not already in the movement in some way (either open source or free software) and seeing these events in nostalgia mode, it’s not likely to be too persuasive or entertaining. But, on arrival in the fall at Pitzer College, heavily dependend on Microsoft servers, networking tools, and workstations, I plan to give copies of this film to the President and Dean of Faculty and start a Linux Users Group in the Claremont Colleges. (The nearest one is the Linux Users Group of the Inland Empire (LUGIE!!) It’s insane for a college with the official mission and general culture that Pitzer has to be Microsoft gnomes.