Synopsis
Revolution OS (2001) is a feature documentary you can watch online on iFILM — directed by J.T.S. Moore, it tells the story of the programmers who built GNU/Linux and launched the Open Source movement.
The film is built around interviews with the people who made it happen: Linus Torvalds, who wrote the Linux kernel in 1991; Richard Stallman, who had launched the GNU Project eight years earlier out of conviction rather than commercial interest; Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens, who helped shape Open Source into something companies could work with. What makes it worth watching is the friction inside the movement itself — the divide between Stallman's free-software absolutism and the more pragmatic Open Source camp is real and unresolved, and Moore lets both sides make their case.
Anyone running a Linux server, shipping open-source code, or just curious how Android ended up on billions of phones will find the origin story here. Stream Revolution OS (2001) online on iFILM.
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