Richard Stallman’s Dream

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TTTO “Midsummer” Heather Alexander

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Cool breeze, sheltering trees,

In M. I. T it was

Hackler lone, wanted more

And from his mind, like fire rose

Software free, guarantee

You can use and tweak

He wrote the code

He is kind of a geek

shellutils, fileutils

followed gcc

Now it’s true that he had bugs

He debugged with gdb

By what right, on this night

Can you take the code?

GPL – use and change

If you’ll only exchange

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Coders enter deep hacking mode

They produce very valuable code

Run a diff, and upload to the net

Happy to share the fruits of their sweat

Kernel’s too hard work

Hurd was not released

One last part, system’s heart

Critical and sorely missed

Linux came, dropped right in

And we all did see

For it rules, how cool

These hackers can be

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