Go Open - Episode 1

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Go Open' is a South African-created TV series that aired in late 2004, and is dedicated to open-source software. The creators of 'Go Open' have very kindly permitted the show to be shared freely with a Creative Commons license.

[EPISODE 1]

Lead Story: Hollywood The Linux Movies Group is an organization for the advancement and mutual support of motion picture technologists using the Linux operating system. It’s the most popular operating system for animation and visual effects in the motion picture industry.

Big Gun: Richard Stallman Richard Stallman is a notable programmer whose major accomplishments include GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. GNU ? In 1985, he published the GNU Manifesto, which outlined his motivation for creating a free operating system called GNU, which would be compatible with Unix. The name GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix”. Soon after, he incorporated the non-profit Free Software Foundation (FSF) to employ free software programmers and provide a legal framework for the free software community. In 1989 Stallman invented and popularized the concept of copyleft. By then, much of the GNU system had been completed, with the notable exception of a kernel. This final gap was filled by Linux in 1991, written independently of the GNU project using the GNU development tools and system libraries. The arrival of Linux, and the availability of a completely free operating system created some confusion, however, and most people now use the name Linux to refer to the whole operating system. Stallman has attempted to change this by asking people to call the operating system "GNU/Linux".

Doing it:Firefox Mozilla Firefox. It’s an Internet browser, so you use it to surf the ‘net – just like Internet Explorer, or Safari if you use the Macintosh operating system. But this one has loads of innovative features, it’s secure, it’s very fast, lightweight - and it’s available on Windows, Linux and the Mac operating system.

Open Source Means Business: FOSS in retailers Pick and Pay is a successful case of a large South African company rolling out open source software. They are using i ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m56y6XJGyrU