+uncompressed copy of this song.
+
+5:30 (MP3 10.2MB) +(OGG 7.8MB)
+
+ +As the author of a number of the OpenBSD songs, I'll admit that +sometimes it's a bit of a chore. Theo bugs me to help him out, often +with a theme, and eventually I relent and devote an evening to it. +
+One of the things that we're passionate about is making changes to the +software ecosystem that make things safer for all of us - not just +OpenBSD. Very often we try techniques, and adopt practices on OpenBSD +to make things better across the ecosystem, and hope to encourage +others to follow our lead. +
+We've had a lot of great success upstreaming changes and ideas to +individual projects, often through the diligent work of the OpenBSD +ports developers. We've had less success promoting things up through +standards bodies and other projects. Too often the world seems caught +up in a seemingly suicidal "backward compatibility forever" fervor, +exacerbated by standards bodies populated by corporate represention +that does not want to make any kinds of disruptive changes that might +cause expense. +
+This time, once Theo put the bug in my ear, it didn't take me very +long. I pondered our recent efforts to fix random functions via +standards bodies, and considered the real possibility of my being + +harmed by the failure of an embedded 32 bit linux device in 2038, +and then this this song just wrote itself in about 10 minutes. +
+Enjoy +
+-Bob +
++Mother, don't think this cruft's too old?
+Mother, do you think we're heading for a fall?
+Ooooh aah, mother, we should change these calls.
+
+Mother, should I send a patch upstream?
+Mother, do you think it'll change a thing?
+Mother, will they twist this in an unfair light?
+Ooooh aah, is it just a waste of time?
+
+Hush now, baby, baby, don't you cry
+Mama's gonna keep all of her customers true
+Mama's gonna keep legacy crap there with you
+Mama's gonna keep changes from making them sad
+She won't let you flense but she might let you add
+Mama's gonna keep baby growing much more
+
+Ooooh, babe, ooooh, babe, ooooh, babe
+Of course Mama's gonna help add some calls
+
+Mother, do you think this code is stuffed? (with shit.....)
+Mother, do you think it's dangerous? (a bit.....)
+Mother, can we tear this API apart?
+Oooh aah, mother, will you break my heart?
+
+Hush now, baby, baby, don't you cry
+Mama's gonna rig all of the standards for you
+Mama won't let anything foreign get through
+Mama's gonna wait up till you send it, dear
+Mama will subvert things not invented here
+Mamma's gonna keep baby under control
+
+Ooooh, babe, ooooh, babe, ooooh, babe
+Don't say deprecation to me.
+
+Mother, does change need to be so hard?
+
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