[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 ]

  • ShortFuse@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

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

    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      4 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

  • mmhmm@lemmy.ml
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    4 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
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      4 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?

    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      4 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…)

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    4 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
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      4 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.

      • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        4 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)

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    4 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
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      4 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.