Movie: Antitrust

[JamminJoeyB]

I was killing some time watching TV while my latest 2.6 test 9 compiled last night and was watching a movie on TBS (I think that was the channel) called Antitrust.

The premis of the movie is a MS type company that rules the software industry is being investigated by the DOJ.

They mention open source and have some pretty idealistic young programmers featured who are looking for some venture capitol for something they are working on.

But the parts of some of the dialog just didn't make sense at all. One part that stuck out was they were talking about scaleable gui interfaces. I thought to myself HUH? Why the heck would a GUI interface need to be scaleable. Seems like they just threw some tech talk together to make is sound good.

I didn't get to watch the whole thing (remember that kernel compile) although an interesting idea for a movie. I think it was actually written before the whole MS DOJ thing.

Has anybody else seen this?

[mrBen]

I have it on VHS :D It's great.

The thing about scalable interfaces is because they are developing a system that should work on every device, from a mobile phone up to a PC. Thus the GUI needs to be able to scale........

Lots of views of GNOME, and a couple of nice tips of the hat to RedHat (pun intended). Miguel de Icaza makes a cameo, and Jon 'Maddog' Hall is on the credits list.

It's niiiice.

[JamminJoeyB]

mrBen, ok that makes sense. A GUI for every device. From a PDA to Plasma Screen.

If it was on TBS maybe they will do what they usually do and run it again tonight so I can catch the whole thing.

BTW test9 booted and is running. No nvidia, but I know that eventually there will be an installer.

[Icarus]

That was a great movie, I believe it was written around the begining of the MS DOJ trials since it came out in 2001 before the trial ended.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0218817/

Fun movie, get the DVD for the extras...turns out that they did a "Hollywood thing to make the movie shorter for the 'short attention span audiance'" Major plot twists were left out, so in the regular movie there were more then a couple of "huh?" parts that made since once you saw what was cut out ;)

[elite_syntax]

I watch that movie last night on my tivo and i thought it was a good movie.I thought it was a hacker movie.So i watch it:)


I know it was something about the sources code.

[JamminJoeyB]

Sounds like I may just have to get the DVD. They must have done a real Hollywood hatchet job on it to shortent it if the DVD is that different from the TV version.

I probably would have watched it all, but I really wanted to get that kernel booted.

Did you guys that have seen the movie think oss was shown in a positive light or did they make it look like OSS zealots are on the loose?

[mrBen]

Very much positive on OSS and negative on closed source.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by mrBen
Very much positive on OSS and negative on closed source. Yup, the whole movie was bashing Closed Source and praising Open Source, and the ending was an OSS ultimate move (I won't say, don't want to ruin the ending for those that haven't seen it ;)) ...even all the desktops were running Open Source in the movie...not a single Mac :D