Cinema for geek

Revolution OS (year: 2001).
A film about Linux and the free software movement. No plot was seen in the film - the film is definitely a documentary. Contains numerous interviews with people such as Linus Torvalds (Linus Benedict Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, as well as the author of Just for Fun), Richard Stallman (Richard Matthew Stallman, creator of the ideology of free software), Eric Raymond (Eric Steven Raymond, author books The Cathedral and the Bazaar - the Cathedral and the Bazaar), and some more. It contains various rather interesting stories, for example, about how Linux users, who first wished to return money for Microsoft Windows, went to create riots at Microsoft and how they were blocked there. =)
In Russia, the film was not published, but in Japan it was very much: the cover of the Japanese edition is on the right. However, there are subtitles in Russian . Trailer (18.84 MB).



Pirates of Silicon Valley (year: 1999).
Also known in our country as "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and, forgive me, Cthulhu, "Pirates of Silicon Valley" (horror, who thought of this? It seems that we are talking about porn). The film, endowed with a truly magnificent plot, based on real events, or rather even on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer. Actually, the film describes the very magical events that took place from the early seventies of the last century until 1985 (Steven Jobs left Apple). On the one hand, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak (Steven Paul Jobs and Stephen Gary Wozniak), who founded Apple, are considered, and on the other hand, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen (William Henry Gates III, Steven Anthony Ballmer and Paul Gardner Allen). Specifically, in the film you can find the story of creating blue boxes, the first user GUI and mouse along with it, the purchase of the DOS operating system by Microsoft and its further resale by IBM ... Trailer .



Antitrust (year: 2001).
And finally, the film, the name of which can be translated into Russian as “Antimonopoly”, and in our wonderful film, this film is called “Dangerous Truth”.
Unlike the two previous films, this one is not even documentary, but rather entertaining. Nevertheless, the plot is very, very delays. It tells about a certain large IT-corporation, which, as can be understood from the plot, is much cooler than Apple and Microsoft there, as well as about some ingenious hacker, who was called to work for this corporation. As it turned out later, with a corporation, not everything is clean (and not surprisingly) - for example, it makes monitoring programmers writing free software and removes source codes of programs from their monitors (it’s just perfect: it’s probably harder to download CVS / SVN) which he later inserts into his very cool proprietary development of SYNAPSE ... Well, in fact, the film is interesting, I just describe it in a geeky way. =) I advise you to look at it (at least because of the beautiful girl-developer of graphical interfaces). In addition, in the film you can see, for example, the most genuine KDE version of that time, as well as a completely normal UNIX shell, without any non-existent 3D stuff there, as it was in ... I won’t point a finger where. Trailer .