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preacher:
Right near the beginning of the movie, you can see that the computers they code on use gnome which means they use *nix. Hell even once he starts working for the Bill Gates like guy, his company even uses *nix in the daycare.

Pantso:
I can't say that it was the best movie I ever saw but it certainly was interesting! It could be educating for me as well, but I was already aware of open source. Unfortunately, some people don't know the difference between free and open source software and use the latter term to refer to both. Anyway, that's just me ranting.  

SAJChurchey:
Yes,

I felt it a nice touch to use *nix on the computers in this move.  Most movies use Macs b/c Apples likes supporting such endeavors.  Why don't more movies display *nix based systems?

billy_gates:

quote:Originally posted by SAJChurchey:
Yes,

I felt it a nice touch to use *nix on the computers in this move.  Most movies use Macs b/c Apples likes supporting such endeavors.  Why don't more movies display *nix based systems?
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Most places don't have them.  And if they use macs then the computers in the movies can be the same computers used to make the movies (more easily).  And apple probably pays for them and since you don't need someone very experienced to set them up it probably saves money.

Its always about the money, if Linux was truly cheaper to run than macs being given to them they would do that.

[ May 03, 2003: Message edited by: Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain ]

bling:
I almost busted a rib laughing when that kid said "He doesn't even know the FIRST THING about open source!" I never thought I'd hear that in a movie. That and remember the vids on the secret computer in the playground? One of them was showing a guy in a Red Hat.

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