The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS 130
jrepin writes "After nearly 9 years of seeding The Pirate Bay's oldest working torrent is still very much alive. Interestingly, the torrent is not a Hollywood classic nor is it an evergreen music album. The honor goes to a pirated copy of Revolution OS, a documentary covering the history of Linux, GNU and the free software movement."
Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? (Score:2, Insightful)
Microsoft had nothing to do with it.
Apart from spending decades trying to kill it.
No the real irony is... (Score:4, Insightful)
it's in a patent encumbered, non-open format! Even worse, it's inside of an AVI container. :)
Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? (Score:5, Insightful)
I was under the impression that Linus was inspired to "scratch his own itch" by creating Linux not because of "relaxed social safety" but because he had just gotten a new i386 computer and he wanted an OS that would take full advantage of all the features in the chip, and his then-current OS (MINIX) wouldn't do that, so he set about to implement a 80386 version of MINIX.
Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] supports this idea, and it is curious to note that he made his famous announcement on comp.os.minix, not, comp.os.look.at.what.i.can.do.because.of.our.relaxed.social.safety newsgroup...