Movie Review
Score: 3.6¹ out of 900¼, unless you understand the words “open source”, then 4.0¹
I’ll take it easy today – a review of Antitrust. Antitrust is a movie for the nerds out there. I’m sure non-nerds can enjoy it, but it helps to harbor a hatred of Microsoft, which is pretty much equivalent to nerd status.
The basic plot is this genius programmer named Milo and his friends have just finished school and are going out into the real world. Where most of his friends join together to form a startup of their very own, he decides to take a lucrative offer to work at NURV (which is, for all intents and purposes, Microsoft). Milo is put on the most important part of the latest NURV project, but soon finds out that he’s getting help from other programmers… without their knowledge. NURV is basically stealing everything anyone else comes up with and putting it into their own project before those people finish theirs. There’s even a conspiracy, which goes further, but that can’t be given away without ruining some of the fun.
All in all, I really liked this movie. Though I wouldn’t accuse Bill Gates of killing programmers for code, this movie sort of rings true to all of us OSS fanatics who believe code should be free to the world, not exploited by some company. If you like computers, especially programming, you should certainly give this movie a shot. If not, it’s worth a look anyway.
