GNU Music and Songs

I liked this one:

    Eleanor Rigby
    Sits at the keyboard and waits for a line on the screen
    Lives in a dream
    Waits for a signal
    Writing some code that will make the machine do some more
    Who is it for?
    
    All these lonely users, where do they all come from
    All these lonely users, where do they all belong
   
    Hacker Mackenzy
    Writing the code for a program that no one will run
    Its nearly done.
    Look at him working.
    Fixing the bugs late at night when there's nobody there 
    nobody cares.

    All these lonely users, where do they all come from
    All these lonely users, where do they all belong
    Ahhhh… look at all those lonely users…
    Ahhhh… look at all those lonely users…`

Though if GNU did actually run a music service, would it be as good as this?

http://freemusicarchive.org/

Thanks for sharing that link, I didn't know about it.

OpenBSD releases a song with artwork & lyrics with every release (ie. every 6 months) [1]. I pretty much lost track of it around 4.x or so. Back then they were on-topic about something which happened through those 6 months in relation to OpenBSD or their Open* projects (which may or may not be relevant to non-OpenBSD users). Sometimes they were parodies. Not sure how it is these days e.g. if quality has gone up or down but back then I thoroughly enjoyed them. I hope you will enjoy them as well.

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

I remember the first two .au files I found on sunsite way back when: Linus pronouncing Linux, and RMS singing the free software song in glorious 8khz.

I never cared much about filk, though.

Wrote this a while back: "My Functional Things"

  lazy semantics and lambda abstractions
  point-free in style and pure computation
  memoization gives simple caching
  these are a few of my functional things

  when the state bites
  when the C stings
  when impure is bad
  I simply remember my functional things
  and then I don't feel so bad

I suspect this is part of why some businesses find it hard to accept open source and take it seriously. If these were hosted on some non-GNU page, that would be fine, but the fact the organisation itself hosts them gives off a very amateurish vibe, I think.

For some reason, they're not linking to the death metal version of the free software song: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/rms-deathmetal.mp3

Some of the songs link to the humor section. So while it has nothing to do with music, I cannot resist the urge to share my favorite that has made me burst into laughter many times over the years (sometimes during quiet work hours). A virus called "Badtimes":

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/virus-warning.html

Similarly, from OpenBSD: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

The copyright for "Emacs vs vi" is held by... James Taylor?? Did he write it?

Love it