"Bohemian Rha"... er, "Windowsian Crapsody"

["John J. Trammell" <trammell@nitz.hep.umn.edu>]

> From: Ben@lspace.org (Ben)
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> Subject: Non-Christmas-type filk-a-like thing
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:28:48 GMT
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> Windowsian Crapsody (C) Ben 1999 and stuff.
>
> Is this a real OS?
> Is this insanity?
> Caught in a niche buy,
> No escape from the GUI.
> Open your eyes, look into your files and see,
> Bill's just a rich boy, he needs no sympathy,
> Because it's sloppy code, full of bloat, really crap, really slow,
> Any way to sell 'dows doesn't really matter you see; s'not free.
>
> Linus, just killed a corp.,
> Put a gnu against its head, read the licence, now it's dead.
> Linus, my code had just begun,
> And now I've gone and ftp'd it all away.
> Linus, GNU, Didn't mean to make(1L) you compile,
> If your prompt's not back again this time tomorrow,
> Code on, code on as if nothing really matters.
>
> Too late, shutdown(8) has come,
> Sends SIGTERM down my spine, cron jobs failing all the time.
> Logout, ev'rybody, It's got to go,
> Gotta re-compile the kernel; patch the goof.
> Linus, d00d, don't want to lose uptime,
> I sometimes wish I'd never been touch(1)'ed at all.
>
> <cue MIDI-embedded web page of hampsterdance doing the guitar solo>
>
> I see a little silhouetto of a plan,
> ESR, ESR, is it catherdral or bazzaaro?
> Underground of coding, very, very worrying Bill!
> (Mo-no-poly.)  Mo-no-poly.  (Mo-no-poly.)  Mo-no-poly.  Mo-no-poly
> figures he,
> Magnifico?  Eric; poor rich-boy, everybody loves he.
> He's just a poor boy from a vi(1) family,
> Spare him his life from this emacs-monstrosity.
> Easy come, easy go, will you let me code.
> Bismillah! No, we will not let you code.
> (Let him code!) Bismillah! We will not let you code.
> (Let him code!) Bismillah! We will not let you code.
> (Let me code!) Will not let you code.
> (Let me code!) Will not let you code. (Let me code!) Ah.
> No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
> (Oh mama mia, mama mia.) Mama mia, let me code.
> Billzebub has Windows put aside for me, for you, for thee.
>
> <cue frenzied accordian playing by Mahir>
>
> So you think you can install it and spit in Bill's eye.
> So you think you can LILO, then leave it to die.
> Oh, baby, it's not that easy, no baby,
> There's little support, there's little support for your games.
>
> Porting really matters, switch to BSD,
> Porting really matters,
> Porting really matters to me.
>
> Anyway, it's 'Wind'blows'...
>
> <JenniCAM on the gong>
>
> -- 
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