Happy Life Day! (Advent 15)

Happy Christmas!  Happy Hannukah!  Happy Winter Solstice!  Happy Holiday Season!  Have I left anyone out?  What about the 380,000 people who stated their religion as Jedi in the 2001 England/Wales census?  Surely as serious as they are in their beliefs they will want to be celebrating Life Day as first introduced in the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.

To recall just how special it was cringe at this clip from Youtube


Instead of a serious discussion of what constitutes a religion and what their rights should be in a multi-cultural society lets consider the different forms of religion debate in IT department.

Here are some examples

• I'm a Mac vs I'm a PC
• iPhone vs Android
• XBox360 vs PS3
• Open Source vs Proprietary

We have a fair number of Open Source devotees in my workplace so for them i have composed a special festive Christmas song (for those unfamiliar with the terms I have included hyperlinks)

The Linuxmas Song

(to the tune of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)

Source code hosted on an Open Filer

FLAC Files ripping on your NAS

YouTube clips being streamed down a wire
And folks stressed out by Ubuntu

Everybody knows Apache and My-S-Q-L

Help to make the website right

Firefox with its vixen logo

Will make it hard to surf tonight

They know that Sambas on its way

He's mounted LDAP, CIFS and printing on his K

And every MCSE is going to cry

To Gnome that Linux really has a G-U-I

And So I'm offering this simple phrase 

To those who aren't propr-ietary

Although its been shared many times, many ways

A very Mono Linuxmas to you