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

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

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    The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV