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If you actually go into the lyrics of the song: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39 http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39 you'll see he's talking about blobs
by koide 14y ago
If you actually go into the lyrics of the song: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39 http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39 you'll see he's talking about blobs exactly as binary large objects. He never uses the phrase "binary blob".
He's just talking about of how are blobs in drivers evil for BSD, taking advantage of the evil amoeba concept.
- tedunangst 14y agoI can assure you that nobody in the openbsd project is using blob as an acronym. To be clear, a binary blob is so named because it's an amorphous lump (as opposed to source code, which has structure). [I agree, the word binary is redundant (nobody complains about source blobs), but not because it's an acronym. The phrase "unfree blob" would also be redundant, since blobs are unfree by definition.]
- koide 14y agoIf you agree that binary is redundant, that's enough for me. Although I wonder how the word blob came to be used in BSD. You don't happen to have the first use in some mailing list archive? Anyway, BSD's usage is not actually the general use of the word, as you can see in the link I've posted somewhere else in this nitpicking thread, people usually mean a bunch of bytes, without connotation.