3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"

What is up with some free software providers?! They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind." While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is going to remember them in the end. This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their offerings in the last few years: David Dawes worked for years with a team of developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use, called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a replacement effort. Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date... OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf, and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the one he wrote. And other projects are switching too... The Apache group started from the humble beginnings of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them, and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no doubt that there are encumberances hidden within. Legal terms protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom. So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any others who will follow them: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will replace it.	Well he rode from the ocean far upstream Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream Lookin' for the legendary inland sea Where the water was deep n' clean n' free But the town he found had suffered a blow Fish were dying, cause the water was low Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes Plugged the stream with copyright laws He said my water's good n' my water's free So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me! Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine" They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time! So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide Said. "this is the mark of too much pride" Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher! Pond-erosa Puff wouldn't take no guff Water oughta be clean and free So he fought the fight and he set things right With his OpenBSD Well things were good fer a spell in town But then one day, dang water turned brown Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need" But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs Folks said "gotta be a gooder way" Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K." "The water's fine on the Open range" And he passed a law that it couldn't change. "No freeze, no boil, no frollicking young" Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong" Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud! So he took him down in a cloud of blood Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean" So they did it right and the water went clean! CHORUS So once agin' it was right, but then The lake went dry, she was gone again! Fish started flippin' and floppin' about Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!" So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake Of Apache fish, they was on the take They'd built a dam that was made of rules Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool! I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words! n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds! You're full o' beans n' killin' my town and if you's all don't shut er down I'll hang a lickin' on every one of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum! So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul Cause water oughta be free for all! CHORUS That's right! I'll hang a lickin' on ya! Never piss on another man's boot!
Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel, Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).

Исламов Ревинирович

2004-09-30T13:03:30

Исламов Ревинирович