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Article #1069What GNU Wants (song parody)
From: Aaron Sherman
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:59
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:59
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What follows is a parody of a song called "What God Wants" by Roger Waters. I've taken a large amount of liberty with the song, and it now resembles the GPL more than a pop song ;-) Actually, you should keep in mind that I sacrificed some reality for good rhymes :-) What GNU wants GNU gets GNU help us all What GNU wants GNU gets The kid with a modem looked at the list And fingered his off white Japanese keyboard The list said GNU wants hackers GNU wants rights GNU wants FORTRAN GNU wants a low price What GNU wants GNU gets Don't look so surprised It's only data J R Hacker cried The users and the coders Took the standards from a book RMS was in the corner Writing LISP that no one grokked What GNU wants GNU gets GNU help us all GNU's not UNIX GNU's on the net GNU's got POSIX GNU's not done yet What GNU wants GNU gets GNU wants compilers GNU wants TeX GNU wants freedom GNU hates the DAT tax What GNU wants GNU gets Don't look so afraid I was only joking The corporation lied The hackers and the users Put the word out on the net The lawyers in the courtrooms Took what they could get What GNU wants GNU gets GNU wants standards GNU wants docs GNU wants a kernel GNU wants X apps What GNU wants GNU gets GNU wants PostScript(TM) GNU wants texi GNU wants LISP GNU wants standardized C GNU wants protests GNU wants boycott GNU wants MIPS GNU wants megs What GNU wants GNU gets Filked by Aaron Sherman (asherman@i-kinetics.com) From "What God Wants" by Roger Waters -- -------- Disclaimer: I am solely responsible for the content of this message. The views expressed here may not be the views of I-Kinetics, Fidelity, any of the Fidelity-owned corporations or my mother.
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!fmrco!fmrco!asherman From: asherman@fmrco.com (Aaron Sherman) Subject: What GNU Wants (song parody) Message-ID: <ASHERMAN.92Oct9215904@piranha.fmrco.com> Sender: news@fmrco.uucp Reply-To: asherman@fmrco.COM Organization: I-Kinetics, 19 Bishop-Allen Dr., Cambridge, MA Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:59:04 GMT Lines: 66