Embrace the Penguin

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Mon May 21 22:28:37 CDT 2007


On 5/21/07, Jim Herrmann <kclug at itdepends.com> wrote:
> I have come up with the chorus to a song that I think you will all
> love.  It's called "Embrace the Penguin", which will essentially be
> encouragement for people move over to the world of open source freedom.
> What I would like to do with the verses, if you like the idea, is turn
> them into sort of open source verses, and come up with them
> collaboratively.  It's difficult to create art in a multi-opinion
> collaborative process, but I think it can be done.  I will retain the
> "project lead" position for myself, so the final "commits", if you will,
> would be my responsibility, but I would like any and all input.  I think
> we would just have to work together on the poetry, and I'll work out the
> music.  Anyway, here's the chorus:
>
> Embrace the Penguin
> Walk away from Redmond
> Embrace the Penguin
> Step into freedom
> If you believe in living free
> of corporate monopolies
> then won't you please
> join with me and
> Embrace the Penguin
>
>
> So what should be in the verses?
>
> Let's have some fun.
>
> Peace,
> Jim


These kinda things lead others to liken OSS to a religion, don't you think?

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