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+ Just as the original song professed its love for Brazil, "World,
+ you'll love my Linux" is the passionate call of an idealistic dreamer
+ who can't bear the thought of software that will only run under
+ Windows, and yet loves the situation with software that will only run
+ under particular Linux distributions.
+ <p>
+ This problem has proliferated itself into the standards bodies, with
+ Posix adopting Linuxisms ahead of any other variant of Unix.
+ <p>
+ Posix and Unix have made it where you can write reasonably portable
+ software and have it compile and run across a multitude of platforms.
+ Now this seems to be changing as the love for Linux drives the
+ standards bodies into accepting everything Linux, good and bad.
+ <p>
+ We also are faced with groups writing software that only works
+ with particular distributions of Linux. From this we get software that
+ not only isn't very portable, but often not particularly stable. Our
+ idealistic dreamer in the song loves running one, or more than one distribution
+ of Linux for a particular purpose. Unfortunately, the rest of us are left
+ with the unattractive choice of doing the same, or relying on
+ herculean efforts to port software that is being actively developed in a
+ way to discourage porting it to other platforms.
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+ Linux, the one and only true Unix<br>
+ We are in every way Posix<br>
+ We voice our yearning "Someday soon"<br>
+ We won't need any other.<br>
+ <br>
+ Then, tomorrow brings a new distro<br>
+ It's better than the last you know<br>
+ Another million bits that changed<br>
+ All the hacks and tweaks we conjure up<br>
+ Just get pushed into Posix<br>
+ There's one thing I'm certain of<br>
+ The world will love it, all Linux<br>
+ <br>
+ Then, there's other stuff we push as well<br>
+ Others can work around this hell<br>
+ With just a million lines of Shell<br>
+ Now, as standards ape the one Linux<br>
+ Everyone else just gets stuffed<br>
+ There's one thing that I'm certain of<br>
+ The world will love it, all Linux<br>
+ We are Posix<br>
+ World, you'll love my Linux<br>
+ Linux, Linux<br>
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