[[!meta title="For this software…"]]
[[!meta author="Daniel Silverstone"]]
[[!meta date="2007-07-09 16:20:02 +0100"]]
[[!tag converted-badly-from-textile words filk]]

This filk has been kicking around in my head for some time. I recently
took the time to gather some info about the [Dmitry
Sklyarov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov) case and formed
this little ditty.

<small>With apologies to Tracey Chapman&hellip;</small>

Three weeks in a Las Vegas jail<br />
For this software, for this software.<br />
Fifty thousand dollar bail<br />
For this software, for this software.

And everybody thinks;<br />
That I’m the fool.<br />
But they can’t read<br />
Any docs from you.

The things we won’t do for docs?<br />
I’d climb a mountain if I had to;<br />
And risk my life so I could read you.<br />
You, you, you…

Every day I’m psychoanalysed<br />
For this software, for this software.<br />
They dope me up and I tell them lies<br />
For this software, for this software

I follow my heart;<br />
And leave my head to ponder,<br />
Deep in these docs<br />
No man can read.<br />
I follow my heart;<br />
And leave my mind to wonder,<br />
Are these docs worth<br />
The sacrifices I make?