Thing 24 - Revolution OS

This documentary is a history of the "open source movement" or free software - how it began and why. It also deals with the origins and development of Linux. The documentary brings up philosophical issues like issues of community building, sharing and creativity. During the '70s and '80s there was a lot of collaboration between people writing software code. Then when Microsoft came along the code became proprietary and this practice wasn't as wide spread. Also featured in the film are interviews with prominent people involved in the movement.