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OpenBSD Meets The Cat License Sketch [updated] 77

Posted by timothy from the there's-no-such-thing dept.
Ash'aman writes "The OpenBSD crew have just posted lyrics and illustrations for the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.5. Included is a hillarious parody of the Monty Python 'cat license' sketch with respect to their battle against software patents over redundancy protocols. Check it out here." The sketch is ready; the software is listed with a May 1st release date. As several Monty Python fans have pointed out, the original sketch is officially called the fish license sketch; the cat just comes earlier in the script.
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  • The Original Python Skit is the 'Fish License' (Score:4, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @09:36AM (#8655695)
    'Cat License'?

    It's Not 'Cat License', you smarmy Git! Run, Don't Walk, to the video store and rent episode #23 of Monty Python's Flying Circus..

    And you call yourself a Geek... For Shame.
    • `Strewth. To Wit: [jumpstation.ca]

      Fish Licence Customer: Hello, I would like to buy a fish license, please.
      Shopkeeper: A what?
      Customer: A license for my pet fish, Eric.
      Shopkeeper: How did you know my name was Eric?
      Customer: No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut.....

      • Error in transcript (Score:5, Informative)

        by jtheory ( 626492 ) on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @04:58PM (#8661133) Homepage Journal
        Odd, this was wrong in both the linked transcript in the parent, and in the CARP take-off.

        The line is NOT "Why should I be tied with the epithet 'loony'...".

        Tied? Who "ties" someone with an epithet?
        The word is TARRED.

        There are plenty of Brits out there... isn't there just one out there (who'll understand the accent) who's willing to transcribe this stuff? /grumblegrumble

        Yeah, I admit I know the sketch by heart. I can even do the different accents, and the whistling bit at the end. But to the untrained eye, I seem perfectly normal....

  • kudos to openbsd (Score:4, Interesting)

    by raffe ( 28595 ) on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @10:02AM (#8655983) Journal
    Big kudos to the openbsd people for moving away from patents. It foss doesnt look carefully software patents will cruch us!

  • This sketch is funnier (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @10:11AM (#8656078)
    DEAD OPERATING SYSTEM SKETCH Cast:
    Mr. Praline: John Cleese
    Shop Owner: Michael Palin

    A customer enters an operating system shop.

    Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. (The owner does not respond.)
    Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?
    Owner: What do you mean "miss"?
    Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
    Owner: We're closin' for lunch.
    Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this operating system what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
    Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, *BSD...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
    Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
    Owner: No, no, it's uh,...it's resting.
    Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead operating system when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
    Owner: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable OS, *BSD, idn'it, ay? Beautiful kernel!
    Mr. Praline: The kernel don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
    Owner: Nononono, no, no! It's resting!
    Mr. Praline: All right then, if it's restin', I'll wake it up! (bashes at the keyboard) 'Ello, Mister *BSD! I've got a lovely fresh kernel update for you if you show...

    (owner hits the keys)

    Owner: There, it spewed some debug output to the command line!
    Mr. Praline: No, it didn't, that was you hitting the keys!
    Owner: I never!!
    Mr. Praline: Yes, you did!
    Owner: I never, never did anything...
    Mr. Praline: (yelling and typing into the console repeatedly) 'ELLO COMMAND PROMPT!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock cron job!

    (Rips out hard drive from computer case and thumps it on the counter. Shoves it back inside the case and reboots the system - blank screen.)

    Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead operating system.
    Owner: No, no.....No, it's stunned!
    Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?
    Owner: Yeah! You stunned it, just as it was finishing an I/O task! *BSD stuns easily, major.
    Mr. Praline: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That operating system is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of responsiveness was due to it bein' in the process of recompiling itself after a particularly comprehensive code update.
    Owner: Well, it's...it's, ah...probably pining for some dilettante dabbling.
    Mr. Praline: PININ' for some DILETTANTE DABBLING?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that? Look, why did it fall flat on its back the moment I started Emacs?
    Owner: *BSD prefers swapping everything out to the hard drive! Remarkable variant, id'nit, squire? Lovely kernel!
    Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining the system when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been printing any text at all to the screen was because of all the WORRYING COMPILER WARNINGS encountered while it was being rebuilt.

    (pause)

    Owner: Well, o'course it was spitting out those warnings! If I hadn't updated the kernel with an unstable development build, you might have had your FTP server compromised [slashdot.org], and VOOM! Bye bye to your business.
    Mr. Praline: "Server"?!? Mate, this OS wouldn't "serve" if you put four million volts through it! It's bleedin' demised!
    Owner: No no! It's pining!
    Mr. Praline: It's not pinin'! It's passed on! This OS is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but Free
    • Had I points, I would mod you up, Mr AC.

      Why'd ya post anon, anyway?
      • I guess he posted AC because it's not original. The blimmin BSD-are-dying-trolls have been posting this for ages. Not that those fucks know what they're talking about though, but that's offtopic I guess.

        At least it's remotely on-topic now. By the way, I like most of the OpenBSD songs, it's a nice touch. Maybe I have to compose a little DragonFly anthem :)

  • Insane (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @01:07PM (#8658415)
    This is insane!!! I find it quite ridiculous; look at the measures that the OpenBSD folks had to go through just to implement a Free protocol.

    Well, I guess we should abandon all OSS/GPL software and OS'.

    I am not a OpenBSD user but I do support their idea to implement a free version of a commercial product or invent their own from scratch. And I am quite disappointed about them having a hard time getting a port assignment from IANA.

    • Re:Insane (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Nimrangul ( 599578 ) on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @02:09PM (#8659156) Journal
      CARP is truly one of the best advancements the OpenBSD team have come up with yet.

      And I know it is flamebait to some, but I think the best part is that it is actually free, rather than free as defined by the Free Software Foundation.

      • Linux implementation? (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Anonymous Coward
        An implementation on Linux would certainly be helpful in making this implementation more widespread -- and let's face it -- there is no viable alternative for a *free* operating system. It is pretty clear the IETF have long ago been infiltrated and taken over by corporate interests and will probably never again support truely open standards. And you know what, I have a lot more faith in the ability of the OpenBSD developers chances of making a halfway decent and secure protocol than Ciscos.

        (This really des

  • For all the "dead OS" trolls... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by cipher chort ( 721069 ) on Thursday March 25, 2004 @08:34PM (#8675117) Homepage
    Have you actually checked out what OpenBSD has been doing instead of blindly ranting about it? Go ahead and click the link http://www.openbsd.org/35.html

    Notable additions (besides CARP)
    BGP4 daemon, unmatched by any other free routing software
    pfsync to share firewall states across multiple boxen (goes along with CARP)
    amd64 support with on-chip W^X
    Security improvements for malloc
    Several more daemons run with privilege separation
    Support for native AES instructions on some VIA C3 CPUs (accelerated crypto)

    Far from being dead, several network equipment vendors are using OpenBSD as a platform for their software, such as SourceFire and nCircle.

    The difference is that OpenBSD tries to be an OS for professionals and do things that replace commercial products from companies like Cisco. While the average home user doesn't give a crap (oooh, we want accelerated 3D!) many professionals do (BGP routing, HighAvailability firewalls, professional grade documentation, secure configuration by default, etc).

    Oh and buy the way, SMP is actually in CVS and you can actually use it; it's just not part of the 3.5 release.
    • I have not used OpenBSD as I have had enough of it around 3.0 and have moved to Free for other BSD based tasks so I cannot comment on the "industrial strength" of their BGP implementation. What I would comment on is that you get what you deserve:

      1. 99% of the stuff related to various seamless failover methods versus a stupid server box are patented.

      2. 99% of designs I have seen based on HSRP, VRRP, phase of the moon, moode of the designer's wife, etc have multiple single points of failure.

      They are the wr
  • testy times two

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