Stephen Fry celebrates GNU's 25th birthday

I just watched a small endorsement err, short film made by British multi-talented Stephen Fry on Free Software. Although I find his use of plumbing as a metaphor to compare software with a bit strange, it does seem to get the message across. Personally I like the analogy of science versus bad science better. In any case its a nice short clip to introduce Free Software to those not aware of its existence.

From the press release:

The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing “Happy Birthday to GNU,” a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry.

In the five-minute film, Fry compares the free software operating system to “good science” and contrasts it with the “kind of tyranny” imposed by the proprietary software produced by companies like Microsoft and Apple that it replaces. He encourages people to use free GNU/Linux distributions like gNewSense (http://gnewsense.org) and free software generally, for freedom’s sake.

Happy Birthday GNU!