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What GNU Wants (song parody)

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From: Aaron Sherman
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
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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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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:59:04 GMT
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