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OpenBSD Meets The Cat License Sketch [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the there's-no-such-thing dept.

Ash'aman writes "The OpenBSD crew have just posted lyrics and illustrations for the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.5. Included is a hillarious parody of the Monty Python 'cat license' sketch with respect to their battle against software patents over redundancy protocols. Check it out here." The sketch is ready; the software is listed with a May 1st release date. As several Monty Python fans have pointed out, the original sketch is officially called the fish license sketch; the cat just comes earlier in the script.

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  1. The Original Python Skit is the 'Fish License' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    'Cat License'?

    It's Not 'Cat License', you smarmy Git! Run, Don't Walk, to the video store and rent episode #23 of Monty Python's Flying Circus..

    And you call yourself a Geek... For Shame.

  2. Error in transcript by jtheory · · Score: 4, Informative

    Odd, this was wrong in both the linked transcript in the parent, and in the CARP take-off.

    The line is NOT "Why should I be tied with the epithet 'loony'...".

    Tied? Who "ties" someone with an epithet?
    The word is TARRED.

    There are plenty of Brits out there... isn't there just one out there (who'll understand the accent) who's willing to transcribe this stuff? /grumblegrumble

    Yeah, I admit I know the sketch by heart. I can even do the different accents, and the whistling bit at the end. But to the untrained eye, I seem perfectly normal....

    --
    There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
  3. Re:Improvements and Additions by beerwolff · · Score: 2, Informative

    Firstly, pf IS available on NetBSD.

    PF Port for NetBSD 1.6.1

    Also I don't really think there's that much of a performance difference between NetBSD and OpenBSD. Although the latest release of Open I've tried is 3.3, so unless it got a lot slower...

  4. Re:Linux implementation? by Jose · · Score: 4, Informative

    check out UCARP. It's a userland implementation of CARP....enjoy!

    --
    The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV
  5. Re:Improvements and Additions by ArbitraryConstant · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've never been able to tell, but there are benchmarks that seem to indicate NetBSD is the better performer in a number of key areas. I couldn't say one way or the other, and I've never run them on the same hardware. But if performance is your priority, use Linux or FreeBSD.

    OpenBSD is an agressively competent firewall system, and NetBSD is very good for playing with rediculously minimal hardware. The areas where they're good overlap a bit.

    Try both. They're both very easy to install on a spare box. Even if you don't end up using them after that, you'll understand Linux or MacOS X (or whatever) better.

    --
    I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
  6. Re:Insane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    You are spewing a lot of inaccurate statements. In particular, whatever you mean by "software aquired under the BSD license" being Free, the GNU folks do consider the BSD license to be a free software license.

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

    You describe "Free-Software" (it is not hyphenated) as that being licensed under terms that "make it perpetually free". As the original terms under which you obtain a work cannot be arbitrarily changed, if you obtain it Free of restrictions it will remain so; perhaps you are talking about derived works ? In that case, you may mean "copyleft" rather than "Free-Software".