To: mozilla-general@mozilla.org From: elig@netscape.com (Eli Goldberg) Subject: [Source Release Humor] Do It Yourself patch level 3 Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 08:19:58 -0800 [Thought y'all might find this funny. Forwarding with permission.] > The following was written yesterday morning, mostly as I was driving to > work thinking about the recent Netscape open-source release (see > <http://www.mozilla.org/>.) A few of the edges are still a little rough. > And of course now I have to ``filk'' the GPL... > > ============================== filk here =========================== > /begin{song}{DIYpl3} > /subtitle{Do It Yourself patch level 3} > /notice{Lyrics /copyright/ 1998 Stephen Savitzky. All rights reserved. > /ttto{Do It Yourself,} /copyright/ Bill Sutton.} > /category{computers, humor} > /key{C} > /created{19980401} > /license{Released under the FGPL} > > C > I went to buy some software, and they said six hundred bucks > F C G7 > For some bloated cruft from Microsoft, now that price really sucks > C > So I looked out on the network, and, my friends, I'm here to say > F C G7 C > That people write great software and then give the code away. > > /begin{refrain} > C > Oh, Oracle, Sun and Microsoft, Novell and SAP > F C G7 > Make bloated buggy cruftware that they license for a fee. > C F* > They make big bucks from software so they don't want me to say > F C G7 C > That software's always better when you give the code away. > /end{refrain} > > First I had to have a kernel just to make my software run > This Finnish guy named Linus wrote a great one just for fun, > Multi-user, multitasking, virtual memory as well, > And best of all it's free because it's under GPL. > > Next, compilers and utilities were what I had to get -- > The Free Software Foundation has the best ones on the Net. > They say that GNU's Not Unix, and I know this must be true > 'Cause the tech support is faster and the software's better too. > > Then I had to have an interface with windows, fonts and mice > And high-speed graphics over local networks would be nice. > The old X Window System got its start at MIT; > If it's good enough for Unix then it's good enough for me. > > Now I had to use the World Wide Web, well that's always been cheap; > Picking lynx, perl and apache didn't cost me any sleep. > Netscape's long been losing market share, but just sit back and wait: > It's been free and on the Internet since April '98. > > Now I have my system running, not a byte was off the shelf; > It rarely breaks and when it does I fix the code myself. > It's stable, clean and elegant, and lightning fast as well, > And it doesn't cost a nickel, so Bill Gates can go to hell. > > /end{song} > -- > / Steve Savitzky \ 1997 Pegasus Award winner: best science song--+ /__ > / h:steve@starport.com \ http://www.starport.com/people/steve/ V /___ > \ w:steve@rsv.ricoh.com \ http://www.starport.com/suites/Starport/Filk \___ > \_ Kids' page: MOVED ---> http://www.starport.com/places/forKids/ _______\__