[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 ]

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
    1612·
    9 months ago

    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!

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
      322·
      9 months ago

      Agree, tho this is a cartoon, which I guess these days might be a subset of meme, but wasn’t always. Anyways, kudos OP.

      • loaExMachinaOP
        31·
        9 months ago

        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)

        • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          Sure, artist gets to choose… I guess this is an example of cartoon being a subset of meme then, on the internet even :)

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          Not to be mistaken with lady Integra the Explorer, a once kinda famous movie star that regards herself as beautiful. Is also a zombie now, and (still) blue.

      • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Have you taken a look at c/politicalmemes ?If a humorless poorly constructed wall of doomerism text lamenting the flaws of modern capitalist society counts as a meme, just about anything does these days

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          33·
          9 months ago

          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 ;)

  • mmhmm@lemmy.ml
    44·
    9 months ago

    Where and how can I find more about Fedora the explorer. This universe is one I would gladly immerse myself in

    • al177@lemmy.sdf.org
      22·
      9 months ago

      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?

    • loaExMachinaOP
      8·
      9 months ago

      Thanks, I just came up with it yesterday and I don’t know if it’s been done before, do I can’t say if there’s any other “Fedora the Explorer” content online. However I’ve done 4 or 5 other cartoons with anthropomorphized Linux distros or softwre, I’ve posted all of them in the linuxmemes Lemmy community and will continue to do so if I make new ones. (Some are of better quality than than others because there’s one I’ve made with my phone and one I’ve made with a Thinkpad’s trackpad…)

  • ShortFuse@lemmy.world
    261·
    9 months ago

    OP, can I get a tagged version of this so I can freely send it around while properly crediting your work?

    • loaExMachinaOP
      23·
      9 months ago

      Thanks! I’m not used to tagging my memes, and I wouldn’t have minded you sharing it without tag, but it’s a nice idea! Here, I put my username on it (it’s pretty much the same I use on Newgrounds, Tumblr and Mastodon, though I don’t have a big following on any platforms and I haven’t posted that specific meme anywhere but here for now).

      signed meme

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    172·
    9 months ago

    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?

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      27·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
      71·
      9 months ago

      No. They closed their sources to subscribers, which in itself would be fine, but the terms of service contain a clause forbidding redistribution of the sources by subscribers, at the penalty of termination of the agreement.