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I w | ent to buy some software, and they said six hundred bucks |
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For some bl | oated cruft from M | icrosoft, now th | at price really sucks |
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So I l | ooked out on the network, and, my friends, I'm here to say |
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That p | eople write great s | oftware and then g | ive the code aw | ay. |
C Oh, Oracle, Sun and Microsoft, Novell and SAP
F C G7 Write bl oated buggy pr ograms that they l icense fora fee
C F* They m ake big bucks from software so they don't want me to s ay
F C G7 C That open source is b etter 'cause you g ive the code aw ay.
First I had to have a kernel just to make my software run |
This Finnish guy named Linus wrote a great one just for fun, |
Multi-user, multitasking, virtual memory as well, |
And best of all it's free because it's under GPL. |
Next, compilers and utilities were what I had to get -- |
The Free Software Foundation has the best ones on the Net. |
They say that GNU's Not Unix, and I know this must be true |
'Cause the tech support is faster and the software's better too. |
Then I had to have an interface with windows, fonts and mice |
And high-speed graphics over local networks would be nice. |
The old X Window System got its start at MIT; |
If it's good enough for Unix then it's good enough for me. |
Now I had to use the World Wide Web, well that's always been cheap; |
On the server side, apache didn't cost me any sleep. |
Mozilla's code was open-sourced in April '98 |
Now Firefox is here and it was truly worth the wait. |
Now I have my system running, not a byte was off the shelf; |
It rarely breaks and when it does I fix the code myself. |
It's stable, clean and elegant, and lightning fast as well, |
And it didn't cost a nickel, so Bill Gates can go to hell. |
Stephen Savitzky
<steve @savitzky.net >
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