Default to open: The story of open source and Red Hat

Red Hat Films is proud to unveil this documentary looking at the past, present, and future of Red Hat and the evolution of open source.

Take a look back at the beginnings of open source, and its growth through the 80s and 90s. Meet the people involved, and understand how Red Hat got started, went public, and changed the technology industry along the way.

Experience this story from some of the people that helped craft it, including DeLisa Alexander, Jeremy Allison, Paul Cormier, Alan Cox, John Halamka, Venky Hariharan, Lawrence Lessig, Alex Pinchev, Brian Stevens, Michael Tiemann, Mark Webbink, Jim Whitehurst, Jan Wildeboer, and Bob Young.

See what the early days were like, and what they think the future might hold for open technology and the software business.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Red
• Hat
• Linux
• RHEL
• GPL
• GCC
• Cygnus
• open
• source
• documentary
• business
• model
• free
• software
• Fedora
• Matthew Szulik
• Alan Cox
• Linus Torvalds
• Marc Ewing
• Bob Young
• Michael Tiemann
• Mark Webbink
• Jim Whitehurst
• Lawrence Lessig
• Jan Wildeboer

[RedHatVideos]

Thanks for your feedback, everyone!

[SeltsamerAttraktor]

If you guys would only conquer the end user market, especially the traditional desktop...... I don't believe that Canonical could make it.

[SpreadGuts]

How about better quality?

[boudrenna]

@andamat hhhh I noticed it before reading your comment :-D

[andamat]

16:30

[andamat]

There was a CentOS book in that shelf:-)

[jmitnick210]

In-depth documentary. Excellent. More coverage of the FSF would've been nice, but I understand it probably would've digressed from the message (& title) of the film. In any case, I'd love to see a book from a historical POV from Red Hat.

[SeltsamerAttraktor]

@canaldozero That's what I said.

[evolutionaryit]

Great video guys! =)

[shazam75]

Thank you - from gentoo user +8 years

[benghaith]

I'm am a fan and a big supporter of "Open Source" and FSF, but I have this strange unpleasant feeling that Red Hat is trying to scratch Stallman's back!! Perhaps I'm wrong! I don't know...