Bye-Bye, Mr. Darl McBride
An open-sourced parody of Don McLean's classic
It's always refreshing to find someone who knows the value of a good parody song, and who's name isn't Weird Al! I stumbled across this in the forums at Groklaw and just had to copy it over.
In case you're wondering, The SCO Group is an old-school Unix company who "thinks" they own all intellectual properties and copyrights to the Unix operating system. Novell would disagree, as they bought the code from AT&T years ago and "partially" sold code to Linux distributor Caldera (who was later purchased by SCO). SCO thinks that IBM and other big Unix licensees have been pushing Unix proprietary code over to the guys building Linux, which is an open-sourced version of Unix built from the ground up to be free. SCO is now pursuing legal action against IBM to the tune of $3 Billion, and is trying like He** to force companies using Linux to pay an exhorbitant licensing fee per CPU running Linux. Here's list of Groklaw's articles from day one: static pages for SCO v. IBM
From GROKLAW (http://www.groklaw.net), a parody for the SCO Group's lawsuits against Linux...
Authored by: k4_pacific on Tuesday, January 20 2004 @ 09:31 PM EST
Lyrics edited by Weeble on Wednesday, January 21 2004 @ 12:07 AM EST
I got bored and wrote a song parody today.
It can be sung to the tune of Don McLean's American Pie (sort of)
Enjoy!
American FUD
A long long time ago, I can still remember
how Unix used to be so great
Tape drives were as big as cars
For saving files, known as tars
And perhaps, we could save it from its fate
But Richard Stallman surely shivered
When Windows NT was delivered
With icons on the desktop
And the flying toaster backdrop
But I can't remember if I cried
with great relief I felt inside
We had IBM on our side
The day that SCO Group died
* Bye Bye Mr. Darl McBride
Claimed there's Unix in my Linux
But I know that you lied.
Oh, them Redmond boys are cursing Samba and WINE
And betting this'll be the way that they die…
This'll be the way that they die.
Did you use the kernel source?
Well the GPL you can't enforce.
Just because I said it's so
We'll sue you if you don't desist
It's not a slap across the wrist
and that's the FUD that's coming out of SCO
He belongs down in a prison cell
Or in the fiery pits of hell
His name is Darl McBride
And he'll take you for a ride
His SCOsource license costs a grand
But no one's got one in his hand
We all told him to go pound sand
The day that SCO Group died, we were singin'
REPEAT [*] CHORUS
Didio came to spread the FUD
And SCO was after Linus' blood
But that's not how its going to be
Cuz PJ came and did her blog
And Darl I'm sure, that dirty dog
Reads it all, quite religiously
At SCOForum they tried with heart
To show they really owned a part
Of Linux the OS free
But they showed us BSD!
We all laughed a while and then we reeled
When we observed what they'd 'revealed'
So now they keep their claims all sealed
The day that SCO Group died, we were singin'
REPEAT [*] CHORUS
Then they released some header files
And that left them on the tiles
'Cause the files had not a single scrap of code
You can't lay claim to 123
Its just a number you can see
That simply tells the program how to load
It's public knowledge, for all to know
That's what was told by us to SCO
But did those fools believe it?
They just could not conceive it!
"We own Unix and all the works
All its traits and all its quirks"
And then they called us stupid jerks
The day that SCO Group died, we were singing
REPEAT [*] CHORUS
And now they're suing Novell too.
They'll sue me and they'll sue you
They're saying this in every place
They are fighting against ol' IBM
And fighting the authors of RPM
But they forgot that they don't even have a case…
It's gonna bust its gonna break
Investor's money they plan to take
stock won't be worth a dime
And it will be a crime
Insider trading we'll all cry
Linux was just their alibi
Darl and Kevin the feds will try
the day that Windows died, we're a singin'
REPEAT [*] CHORUS
When times were dark and things were glum
Darl had Linux by the thumb
Someone had to save the day
But like an episode of Scooby Doo
PJ and friends they came through
And Linux is here to stay
But back in Utah, so it seemed
SCO did cry, and they did scream
They couldn't match a token
No copyrights were broken!
And the OS I admire most
Is free to all, from coast to coast
And SCO is but a distant ghost
The day that SCO Group died, and we were singin'
REPEAT [*] CHORUS