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Vivaldi Gloria
September 3rd, 2008, 04:04 PM
http://www.gnu.org/fry/

"Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday."
Sealbhach
September 3rd, 2008, 05:48 PM
Lovely!!:)


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billgoldberg
September 3rd, 2008, 06:07 PM
Nice video.

I did have to select Totem, because the default one did produce any sound.
joshdudeha
September 3rd, 2008, 06:12 PM
That is sooooo cool. lol.


I like Stephen Fry, he seems like a real nice man.
Extremely Clever!
Catalyst2Death
September 3rd, 2008, 06:13 PM
I didn't have sound either so I decided to download the high quality version locally. Hopefully its good!
gn2
September 3rd, 2008, 06:24 PM
He's quite a Gnu/Linux/FOSS enthusiast and promoter (fanboy?), lots of positive articles on his blog: http://stephenfry.com/blog/
Sealbhach
September 3rd, 2008, 06:32 PM
In the UK he is considered a "national treasure" so he can be a very influential advocate for free software.


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Retrograde77
September 3rd, 2008, 06:47 PM
That was superb :)

Had no idea he was into this stuff, big fan of his.
JillSwift
September 3rd, 2008, 06:54 PM
I'm going to have to write to Hugh Laurie and see if he's into FOSS, too. :)
Nepherte
September 3rd, 2008, 07:46 PM
A nice movie indeed. Video worked straight away with mplayer (gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer front-end).
Chame_Wizard
September 3rd, 2008, 09:02 PM
BSD(1977)/LINUX(1991) for the win:-$:tongue:=D>
Samhain13
September 3rd, 2008, 10:32 PM
I was half expecting the Chancellor to appear... :D
Happy birthday, GNU.
fatality_uk
September 3rd, 2008, 10:39 PM
He is a star :KS
Half-Left
September 3rd, 2008, 11:43 PM
Looks like a Macbook Air on the table :p

Nice video, I love Stephen Fry to, was great in Blackadda.
kevin11951
September 3rd, 2008, 11:50 PM
Looks like a Macbook Air on the table :p

Nice video, I love Stephen Fry to, was great in Blackadda.

it is
Sealbhach
September 4th, 2008, 12:15 AM
He's a close friend of Prince Charles of the House of Windsor.

Maybe he's got Charles into FOSS.:)


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Daveski
September 4th, 2008, 12:19 AM
He's quite a Gnu/Linux/FOSS enthusiast and promoter (fanboy?), lots of positive articles on his blog: http://stephenfry.com/blog/

Great for general promotion of FOSS - this is the kind of positive 'advertising' that should not go unnoticed.
joninkrakow
September 4th, 2008, 07:42 AM
Looks like a Macbook Air on the table :p


Ha! I was wondering if anybody would notice that! I wonder what OS it's running???

Also, while the music was playing at the end, my daughter came running downstairs. She is convinced that the piano is "delicate piano" from Garage Band (the Apple software). I trust her judgment, because she's using those samples right now on a song she's making. So, I went to the band's web site, where I read the following:

furny's heavy use of samples means that many of their early tracks are unavailable for release, due to their copyright infringement nature.

So... long live GNU! ;-)


Nice video, I love Stephen Fry to, was great in Blackadda.

I almost forgot about that. My favorite episode is the very last one... Don't know why, as it's rather tragic.

-Jon
Half-Left
September 4th, 2008, 01:10 PM
it is

Going on about GNU and free software with a proprietary Macbook and software in the same shot.

Dont seem right to me unless it's deliberate. He could well have Linux on there, alot of freesoftware devs for KDE and GNOME use Macbooks as well with Linux on.