make money from it but dont start to count, if you do, the value will be zero.

I as a computer user, programmer/developer and professional in it, find things about IT as good and nice as you might feel about breathing air around you. ( meaning its just normal to me, for you may be too abnormalish and if forced to define in a word, you might take solace in saying it as "geeky" )

So , just a couple of days ago, I was told to watch movie called Revolution OS by my friend named dhaval faria. He was the one who told me about movies called "Pirates of silicon Valley" and "Antitrust". Pirates of silicon valley is supposed to be biographical story of Apple computers starting from the times when steve jobs, bill gates and steve ballmer all were in colleges and how microsoft tied up with IBM but made them pay royalty for MS-DOS and how Apple went to making the first gui based Mac OS also has tit-bits of the xerox system coming with same idea but apple managing to get it running first. Antitrust is just hypothetical hollywood movie.

Watching revolution OS was like going through time-travel of my life in the past 8-10 years and i am in state of somewhat elavation.

My first experience with computer was at a computer-fair at my school which had games to play. (mayb it was running IBM dos... i guess ) when i was in grade 9. I remember playing super galaxy , pacman, bomber man and couple more whole day spending all the money just on the games which i was given for eating food at stall and travel. next was when i was in junior college i took programing course (basic, lotus 1-2-3, foxpro 2.5 for dos) and the labs had windows 3.1 later at the end of course, the labs started installing windows 95 (this was in year 1994-95).

After good gap, i started doing web programming and at that institude, got first
introduced to Windows 98 and at end of the course Windows 98 se was release. again some years went by where i lost quiet some years doing nothing in computers...

In year 2000, I went to a iDevelop 2000 conference a oracle developers seminar. I remember one of the speakers saying why are they putting i before everything because of the internet boom, everyone wants to put "i" to the name for what they are doing and it looks cool. THIS is where i was introduced to Linux in flesh. for good 2 years i was hearing Unix and linux are the alternative forces in the world existing but never really got my hands on it. except seeing unix 3.0 running in labs of my institude. I had internet connection and used to read about Linux and the "free movement" but at the Oracle seminar i saw Linux running in front of my eyes first time.

I remember seeing Linux running at the small demo-setup in lounge. I went near them and just lookd around. the banners, pamplets read Redhat Linux. opposite to them were Sun's sparc system running. I went near the redhat booth and asked the person in tie-suit what is this running. He said this is Linux operating system built and customised by redhat with KDE as windows manager and had Oracle for linux setted and running. i asked him where can i get linux he said i am already given it in my developers kit (i still have the oracle 8 set with redhat 6.2) I got home fired up my pentium 500 pc and tried installing end a broken pc.

so cause of that i totally forgot about it. until a couple more years later i decided to join a institude for linux advance administration course which just catapulted me from noob to not a noob.

but from year 2000-2004 between that, i was heavily involved with microsft and related things too. i still remember paying heavily for Whistler CD and getting my eyes hazy seeing the GUI advancement and things in it. so much so that i grabbed a offer to become microsoft beta tester and went on to test Windows 2003 server edition, Office 2003 server edition, Visual basic .Net. Plus also i grabbed offer to take formal introductory training in VS.net at Microsoft's training office right here in bombay. Mr. Sanjay Shetty (Regional director for MS), and teams at that center were extremely kind to us (me and dhaval) during those training sessions. (still got the white papers from those sessions )

now during 2002-2003, i was living in duaility between windows and linux. Not knowing what seriously to get into, which will "pay-off" in future, but at start of 2004 I got a offer from a person named Bill Stanley in texas to work as linux server support engineer, and cause of that offer, now i am completely into Linux although never away from windows.

Now today after watching RevolutionOS just brought all things back to me. Dhaval told me its about GNU and linux and you will like it. He is Microsoft MVP doesnt really loves linux and he is telling me see a good movie on Linux made me confused really. I watched it and was really enjoying it.... and kept thinking this is such a good movie on linux and all the things that happened why would dhaval expose this to me ... a die-hard microsoft developer telling me something good about linux just didnt make sense to me UNTIL i saw the last 4 minutes of the movie... the way VAlinux share went from USD $200-$300 per share at its debut in 1999 to USD $ 2 per share when it quitted from market couple of years later. seeing that made sense to me why dhaval told me watch that movie.

Edit :- http://www.dhavalfaria.com/

Also, Dhaval read this blog and below is his response in chat i just had .

[13:58] anshu_pg: humm.. the revolution os was fun
[13:58] dhavalhirdhav: ya
[13:58] anshu_pg: I AM UR WORST NIGHT MARE ....... that line just cracked me up
[13:58] dhavalhirdhav: even me
[14:12] dhavalhirdhav: abe saaale.. woh 2USD kee wajah see mein nahi bola ( didnt tell you to see movie for that 2 dollar drop in VALINUX share)
[14:12] anshu_pg: lol then?
[14:12] dhavalhirdhav: I just told u so that real open source kaa meaning pata chale..(I told you so you get the meaning of real open source thing)
[14:12] anshu_pg: heheh
[14:12] anshu_pg: reallly?
[14:13] dhavalhirdhav: abe and I dont hate Linux.. I like it.. but the way its marketed.. I hate that thing
[14:14] dhavalhirdhav: update kar (do update)
(in progress)