Source Wars Episode IV Trial of the BSD Knights Not so very long ago And not so far away AT&T made system code And gave some bits away Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it Better, faster, more diverse This open thing was wonderful For everyone on Earth And then the roaring 90's came The Empire changed its mind And good old greed was back again The geeks were in a legal bind The Empire's Unix Lab Sued BSDi from above The code is free but Only we can sell it bub The University came calling In full protective mode And proved the source in Net/2 Didn't use the Empire's code Then Bostic brought the Empire's books N' slammed them dandys down And showed the giant chunks Of BSD code all around They didn't even give an ounce Of credit front to back This broke the license USL Was using to attack The case was thrown out by the judge And "settled" out of court And UCB was big enough To take it like a sport And to this day the geekfolk say Now did we win or lose? They shoulda made 'em reprint Every book with proper dues And take out ads in major rags Apologetically And maybe now it wouldn't be The same monopoly The Empire might have tumbled Down if everybody saw How greed became so big They couldn't see that glaring flaw But only one community The one that makes it tick Is there to fight for everyone Exposing hypocrites And OpenBSD is here To tell the story right Once again the fight is fought And kept in shining light And may the source be with you May the Empire fall apart Ya like that's gonna happen But we gotta keep heart