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Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released
Eh-Wire writes "Theo has announced the release of the lyrics to the OpenBSD 3.7 song "The Wizard of OS". Theo writes in the announcement, "Please be sure read the commentary I have written next to the lyrics of the song. The artwork and lyrics for each of our releases relate to something big we have been dealing with over the last 6 months of the release -- our fight to get programming documentation and redistributable firmwares.""
that's not half as catchy as Ballmer's Developers! Developers!
3.0 was obviously a kinda techno-trance deal - Puff Daddy
3.1 was a more solid rock song, mid 90s style, almost Rammsteiny - Puffy the Kittenslayer
3.2 was the Bond ballad, not my cup of tea - James Pond
3.3 was more 80s rock, cool though - Puff the Barbarian
3.4 was strange, I'd almost call it folk and medieval combined - Puffy Hood
3.5 was a comedic parody of Monty Python - no real theme for Puff
3.6 was a Johnny Cash styled country - a Clint Eastwoody "Pond-erosa" Puff
3.7 was a 70s, Pink Floydesque rock song - Puffathy
I still hope for a release with an Open C Compiler, just so they can have a Kid Rock styled theme song and a Puff with a handlebar mustache riding a chopper, and maybe a release based on the Marx Brothers, a Puff for each Marx would be nice.
What are the other OpenBSD fans out there hoping for some day?
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Their filk... well... uhhhh... I feel certain better can be done. Hell, even I write better. They're working with the news since the last release. The British 60s satirical news series "That Was The Week That Was" had a song for every week's news - with infinitely more bite, even with an infinitely smaller timeframe.
I like the idea of a song roundup. I found many of the songs in Spitting Image to be as powerful and as cutting as any of their sketches. I just think that they need someone who can pen some better lyrics.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in Redmond largely continues their practices because they get the chipset documentation years before everyone else does. What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free development information for all, but are even going further and telling their development communities to not work with us at pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
Can someone explicitly corroborate or refute this statement? If that's true, that's pretty low.
Somewhat of off-topic, but did anyone else catch a mention of OpenBSD in a late issue of Forbes magazine? (Url is hnya).,
in the context of a young enterpreuner selling wifi access point / firewall combos, hoping to compete with Cisco? Granted OpenBSD was mentioned once [as opposed to a whole centerfold and a cover story they had on Linux several years ago], but it's still not bad for a mainstream publication.
I'd pry my eyeballs out, but I don't want that to be the last image that crossed my retinas.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?