Do It Yourself patch level 3 - Stephen Savitzky

I w[C]ent to buy some software, and they said six hundred bucks For some bl[F]oated cruft from M[C]icrosoft, now th[G7]at price really sucks So I l[C]ooked out on the network, and, my friends, I'm here to say That p[F]eople write great s[C]oftware and then g[G7]ive the code aw[C]ay. Oh, [C]Oracle, Sun and Microsoft, Novell and SAP Write bl[F]oated buggy pr[C]ograms that they l[G7]icense fora fee They m[C]ake big bucks from software so they don't want me to s[F*]ay That [F]open source is b[C]etter 'cause you g[G7]ive the code aw[C]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.