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Song Parodies -> "Infinite Hands"

Original Song Title:

"Finity's End"

Original Performer:

Leslie Fish

Parody Song Title:

"Infinite Hands"

Parody Written by:

Arne Babenhauserheide

The Lyrics

...singing a part of the history of free software...
Infinite Hands build a world to be free,
the digital space we all know,
unlimited use has the code that we write,
and freedom's the badge we all show.

The stuff runs our servers, our desktops and grids,
by uncounted hands it was made,
set out in the wild on the day it is born,
for our free running, long coding trade.

Ref:
And no law shall bind us or keep us for long,
for infinity's ours and infinity's free,
and no company owns us, and no land's our own,
for Infinite Hands are we.

The companies thought that they'd pay us for lines,
and have all the code for their own.
"You're company people and company teams,
your code will now serve us alone."

R.Stallman was only a student that day,
and he said to himself, thinking deep:
Farewell to a job, all my code shall be free,
for what they don't own, they can't keep.

-Ref-

The miracle came, he did not change his mind
and gathered around him a crew,
and people could buy his free programs from him,
sent by mail and his money got through.

At times others came and they said, "We're free, too,
you can take code as if in a mall.
It will be only yours then, just say it's from us,
and it runs and compiles where you call."

-Ref: But... -

Now Richard M. Stallman was vexed and annoyed,
and he sent out the word as before:
"All code must be free, free to use and improve,
which our license ensures evermore."

But still many coders were lured from our ranks,
now for Windows and Apple they strived,
- spoken in background: And for Amiga, BeOS, IBM,
and many more -
their doom and their fall came from finland one day,
as to GNU a free kernel arrived.

-Ref- (percussion)

We open our source as an act to be free
from chains of lock-ed down trash
but some people lost the philosophy
and started to see only cash.

So the term "Open Source" became marketing slang
from people who seemed to be guides,
but freedom, or social, or changing the world? (spoken)
They talk about money, not rights.

-Ref- (vocal)

"Come all to U.S.", came a call spreading wide,
"for there is no place else you can be."
- spoken in background: DMCA, DRM, TCPA,
software patents, idea patents and a war on terror,
I prefer giving my code to the whole world -
But Richard M. Stallman still sent out the word,
that all code from now on must be free.

So code would stay free and our teams did grow strong,
but some loopholes remained in our side,
which traitors like TiVo exploited to steal,
so we needed a change in the right.

- Ref-

... no words ...

So our license reshaped by the people and GNU,
for code contributed to trade,
And orders be none to withhold us or bind,
No law on our code but the license we made.

Ref:
Just that law shall bind us and keep us for long,
for infinity's ours and infinity's free,
and no country owns us, and no land's our own,
for Infinite Hands/Lines are we,
are we, for Infinite Hands/Lines are we.
The whole song, including recordings, is also available on infinite-hands.draketo.de.

Leslie Fish and C.J. Cherryh graciously gave their permission to license this song under the GNU General Public License (and other free licenses ). That's a huge contribution - please give them a visit if you like the song!

Major contributions to Infinite Hands, ordered by date:
* Leslie Fish and C.J. Cherryh wrote the original song (Finity's End).
* Draketo alias Arne Babenhauserheide wrote the initial version of Infinite Hands.
* Elb(en)land and Draketo performed it at the FilkCONtinental.
* Alan Thiesen added some nice improvements, especially for parts where the english sounded a bit off. Also he got into contact with Leslie Fish for permission to license the song under free licenses (that's one of the biggest contributions I can think of (apart from writing the original song) - many thanks!).
* Draketo recorded the 2007 version of the song.
* gnu_reader added the initial version of the open source verse.

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