Jul 1 2007

Free­dom is the right of all sen­tient beings.” — Optimus Prime

This one throwaway line in the new Trans­formers film is in fact homage to the ori­ginal Trans­formers series. As obser­v­ant read­ers of this blog may have noticed, I am quite a fan of the Trans­formers mul­ti­verse, par­tic­u­larly of the 1986 anim­ated film (amongst other things, it has an awe­some soundtrack and some great vocal work). Optimus Prime was a child­hood hero of mine, so this motto has always struck a chord with me.

It also makes me won­der, if the Auto­bots are such strong advoc­ates of free­dom, are they them­selves pro­grammed with Free Soft­ware? Con­versely, are the Decep­ticons proprietary?

 

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3 Responses

  1. Asker Says:

    I heard that Mega­t­ron is using Lin­spire :D

  2. Zhasper Says:

    You put spoil­ers in the titles of your posts?

  3. Sridhar Dhanapalan Says:

    Zhasper,

    Ummm… how is that a spoiler? It was never a secret that Optimus Prime would be in the film, and I don’t think any­body expec­ted him to die (been there, done that).

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