Not Poems and Rubbish

I was listening to War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne today, and it suddenly occurred to me that the Artilleryman is an Open Source Software zealot.

"We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves."

"It's not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion."

"Take a look around you at the world we've come to know
Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show
But maybe from the madness something beautiful will grow
In a brave new world."

"Man is born in freedom but he soon becomes a slave
In cages of convention from the cradle to the grave
The weak fall by the wayside but the strong will be saved."

"In a brave new world
With just a handful of men
We'll start all over again."

"I'm not trying to tell you what to be
Oh no, oh no, not me
But if mankind is to survive
The people left alive
They're gonna have to build this world anew
And it's going to have to start with me and you."

"Imagine the destruction of all that you despise
Slowly from the ashes the phoenix will arise."

"Take a look around you at the world you've loved so well
And bid the ageing empire of man a last farewell
It may not sound like Heaven but at least it isn't Hell."

"I've got a plan!"

"Nothing can stop men like us. I've made a start already.
Come on down here and have a look."

All these years, and I never realised it.

It's doing the working and the thinking that wears a feller out.