[UCLA-LUG] Re: [SGVLUG] PBS Borgification: LA PBS Stations Not Showing Tonight's National PBS Pick-of-the-Month Show on Open Source

[Ocie Mitchell]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 06:08:37PM -0800, John Wenger wrote:
> Today Slashdot reported that PBS will show a program
> tonight, called Code Rush, about the Netscape decision to
> open source their browser. 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/03/30/1253234.shtml.
> 
> This program is a National PBS Pick-of-the-Month for March:
> http://www.pbs.org/whatson/press/winspring/coderush.html.
> 
> Strangely, this program is not being shown by the three LA
> area PBS stations, cf.
> http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/stationlist.html?address=whatson&zipcode=90278&x=24&y=2.

I saw this last night on channel 24 (KVCR San Bernardino).  I was a
little uopset that KCET didn't air the show because I support them.
Anyway, the show was OK.  More like 48 hours and not really any formal
interviews.  It would be nice to see a show about the history of free
software in general, but I think that most people who are interested
in it already know the material for the show, and most of those who
don't know wouldn't care.  I liked it more than the Bob Kringly (sp?)
nerds series and it was head and shoulders above "Pirates of Silicon
Valley".

Ocie