In comp.os.linux.advocacy, cc
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wrote
on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:15:03 -0800 (PST)
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> Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the group
> 7 was posting gibberish because he's a dumb little poop
> Linux advocacy posts were being made with care
> To ward off Microsoft Munchkins and their Open Source scare
>
> Snit posted GUI inconsistencies, thousands at a time
> And Hadron was there desperate to take his side
> Tattoo Vampire wanted to fight and called them both queers
> Because he had grown 7 feet tall after having a beer
[rest snipped for brevity]
Okaaaaaaaaaay....I've got one too.
(with apologies to the appropriate bunch)
An Ode To Windows Vista, Christmas Edition
Joy To The World, Vista has come!
Let geeks reload each box.
Let every computer system,
prepare room for it,
with internal disk drive gronks,
and internal disk drive gronks,
and gronks, and gronks, and lots more gronks.
Joy to the World, it's time to buy,
the Modern Operating System!
Time to upgrade the disk,
memory and video,
And spend a little more green,
and spend a little more green,
and spend and spend a lot more green.
Peace on earth, replace it now.
Windows now has great 3D.
With the Aero interface
that's slow but very pretty,
And spinning those nice windows,
and spinning those nice windows,
and spinning, and spinning, those nice windows.
Amen to them, which from Vista sprang.
It needs some big add-ons.
There is no editor
except Notepad and Write [*],
We need to install Office,
We need to install Office,
We need to, install, Microsoft Office,
Joy to the Web, we can now browse!
With Internet Explorer.
It's non standard
and does its own thing,
and confuses all the websites,
and confuses all the websites,
and confuses, all the standard websites.
Vista rules, with style and grace,
and Digital Rights Management Control Software.
We want to ensure
that people play that disc,
but don't copy it copy it oh,
don't copy it copy it oh,
don't copy, don't copy, it illegally, Oh!
Linux is dirt, as Vista rules,
Free software has no place.
Microsoft is the future,
with sixty billion per year,
And lots and lots of preloads,
and lots and lots of preloads,
and lots, and lots, more preloads.
Joy to the world, XP is gone.
Vista will take its place.
Let everyone scream
at vendors everywhere,
and Microsoft quickly recants,
and Microsoft quickly recants,
and Microsoft, quickly, puts it back.
Joy to the bugs, on the Internet.
Let boxes receive the spam.
And then they become a large,
Gigantic massive botnet,
and bombard various websites,
and bombard various websites,
and bombard, various, we-eb sites.
The DoJ, might actually look
with Obama now as Prez.
At marketplace restrictions
and EUC allegations
and various alleged acts,
and various alleged acts,
and lots of, and lots of alleged acts...
Joy to the World, Linux has prevailed.
The freeware has returned.
It never went away,
and now it can flourish,
with the monopoly broken up,
the monopoly broken up,
the Microsoft, monopoly, broken up.
* * *
Admittedly, the meter of the song wandered off and hid
somewhere, and there's not much rhyme though there might
be a reason.
But one can dream, can't one?
[*] also known as Wordpad, at least in
pre-Vista Windows variants. The
one apparently calls the other.
--
#191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is it cheaper to learn Linux, or to hire someone
to fix your Windows problems?
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
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