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% Leah Rowe % 2020-11-15
I present unto thee:
The Free Firmware Song! Also known as the Libreboot Theme Song.
Sing it with me!
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Join us now and flash free firmware! ♫
You’ll be free! Hackers, you’ll be free! ♪
Join us now and flash free firmware! ♫
You’ll be free! Hackers, you’ll be free! ♪
NSA can spy on all of us, that is true. ♫
Hackers, that is true. ♪
But they cannot touch our firmware! ♫
That is good. Hackers, that is good! ♪
When we have enough free firmware, at our call, ♫
hackers, at our call: ♪
We’ll kick out the management engine, evermore, ♫
hackers, evermore! ♪
Join us now and flash free firmware! ♫
You’ll be free! Hackers, you’ll be free! ♪
Join us now and flash free firmware! ♫
You’ll be free! Hackers, you’ll be free! ♪
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♫
Here is a video of me singing it:
Direct link: https://av.vimuser.org/firmware.webm
About the Free Firmware Song:
I, Leah Rowe, was doing a Libreboot T400 flashing video for people to follow, so they could know how to install Libreboot onto their T400. I put a clip of Richard singing the Free Firmware Song at the start of the video.
Well, at the end of the video I got a spark of creativity and just rolled with it. I pretty much came up with the parody on the spot!
Rumour has it that I sing this song every time I flash a Libreboot laptop and sell it on my web store, https://retrofreedom.com/
I have no comment!
Libreboot
Free your BIOS today! No more proprietary BIOS/UEFI. Use a computer that has 100% free (as in freedom) boot firmware. Get a Libreboot system!
Info about Libreboot: https://libreboot.org
Libreboot is free boot firmware, to replace BIOS/UEFI. It initializes all of the hardware in your computer, so that you can load an operating system such as GNU+Linux.
You can install Libreboot yourself, on available supported hardware, or buy from a company that sells computers with Libreboot already installed. See:
https://libreboot.org/suppliers.html
Acknowledgements:
This is a parody of the infamous Free Software Song, by Dr. Richard Stallman of the GNU project and Free Software Foundation. Founder of the Free Software movement and GNU project. Our GNU/Lord and GNU/Savior.
I, Leah Rowe, claim no licensing or copyright on this song.
The original Free Software Song can be found here: https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.en.html