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GNU Music and Songs
- grabcocque 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
- davidsong 9y agoFair comment, but a cult of freedom trumps the mainstream religion of subjugation and domination.
- Y_Y 9y agoCult of freedom? You mean libertarianism?
- dawnbreez 9y agoUnfortunately, every successful organization I've seen either is a cult or develops a cult-like following to support itself.
- sctb 9y agoIt seems like you won't comment according to the guidelines, so we've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bloat 9y agoThough if GNU did actually run a music service, would it be as good as this? http://freemusicarchive.org/ http://freemusicarchive.org/
- nvr219 9y agoLove it
- patrickaljord 9y agoI 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…`
- 69yeeboi69 9y agowhich one is this on the page? I don't really want to sample them all.
- anc84 9y agoI wonder if that is some parody fair use or how else would they be able to use it?
- jwilk 9y agoOriginal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuS5NuXRb5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuS5NuXRb5Y
- mhd 9y agoI 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.
- sneak 9y agojwz used to have that file linked as why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossible.au
- Fnoord 9y agoThanks 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 https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
- Paianni 9y agoQuality is still good but lyrically they are all the same now. 5.2's 'Aquarela do Linux' was probably the last aggressive song.
- snvzz 9y agoSimilarly, from OpenBSD: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
- mikegerwitz 9y agoSome 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 https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/virus-warning.html
- muraiki 9y agoWrote 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
- jdormit 9y agoThe copyright for "Emacs vs vi" is held by... James Taylor?? Did he write it?
- microtherion 9y agoFor some reason, they're not linking to the death metal version of the free software song: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/rms-deathmetal.mp3 https://www.jwz.org/hacks/rms-deathmetal.mp3
- grkvlt 9y agoI 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.