[Image description : 4 Panel comic. Panel 1: A Dora the explorer ripoff wearing a fedora and with the fedora logo on her t-shirt is smiling at the viewer. The caption “Fedora the explorer” is over her head. Panel 2: She speaks to a vaguely anthropomorphic chameleon: “Hello Opensuse !” He replies : “Hi Fedora!” Panel 3: OpenSuse Says: “Someone has been using your code while not freely providing theirs despite the GPL licence!” Panel 4: Fedora “Hmmm… Who could it be?” A fox wearing a red hat emerges from a bush in the background. End ]
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I really like that post!
It seems like OP put a lot of work and creativity into the meme, while intelligently criticizing a problem and not just using “Windows bad hurr hurr” as the base.
I wanna see more of those kind!
Agree, tho this is a cartoon, which I guess these days might be a subset of meme, but wasn’t always. Anyways, kudos OP.
Thanks! Now, to defend the memeticity of my creation:
A cartoon can be a meme if it contains memetic elements that get reused across several memes by different creators (cf: the rage comics).
This comic contains text. Languages and alphabets are memes. Therefore, it counts as a meme.
Checkmate.
(Also, since “meme” comes from the greek word “mimeme” (to imitate), including an imitation of Dora the Explorer is also memetic; even moreso since it’s been done many times)
(Also, given the way it spreads through sharing, copying and modifying, Linux can also be considered a meme. Since the sharing part is mostly through the internet, it fits an even narrower definition of “internet meme”, therefore a cartoon about Linux can definitely be considered a meme)
Windows bad hurr hurr
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A fellow potassium enjoyer, I see.
I also enjoy mentioning windows being shitty without needing to cite sources. Sometimes you can just have decades of life experience and others can nod because they know you’re right.
On the other hand, I do NOT enjoy weird phrases based on mocking the mentally disabled while also talking shit about people who have loads of valid reasons for hating the output of a hugely shitty corporation.
But yeah, bananas are fine too ;)
Fedora no swiping!
Red Hat is the swiper here
RED HAT DON’T TOUCH THAT
RED HAT DON’T TOUCH THAT
Where and how can I find more about Fedora the explorer. This universe is one I would gladly immerse myself in
Next week: Fedora meets a new friend named Lennart while on her way to Multiuser Mountain. Will they be able to cross the init bridge without being caught by Sammy the Systemd Hating Troll?
Wasn’t it like they still provide their sources, but not binaries, which (while generally being a dick move) doesn’t doesn’t contradict the GPL?
Or have I missed something?
Afaik the issue is that they made their code “open” source in the way many for-profit companies do: they require a subscription before you have access to the code.
If I understand the GPL correctly that doesn’t violate it, since it only requires that the users have access to the source and not the general public.
Microsoft did a similar thing with GPLV2 software. That’s one of the new things in the GPLv3, you camnot enforce source code restriction by thirdparty subscription agreements
The part that really makes it possibly infringe on the GPL is when you combine it with their user terms: It threatens terminating service to customers who get the code and share it. The GPL is supposed to guarantee that the rights of sharing the source code, and RedHat impedes on this freedom. I think his article breaks it down pretty well: https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-08-redhat-gets-around-gplv2-license-intention-with-contract-law/
