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    [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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    [–] Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de 159 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.net 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.works 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.net 6 points 1 year 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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, where the cartoon series??

    [–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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

    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

    Un verdadero meme de Linux

    [–] mmhmm@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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?

    [–] shrugal@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

    I'd watch that movie!

    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...)

    [–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Yeah, someone on Lemmy has remembered about OpenSuSE

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

    Omg right?

    I was excited just for that, but then also the comic made me laugh as its actually really well made.

    [–] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    There's at least two of us

    [–] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year 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

    [–] einlander@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] kautau@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Red Hat is the swiper here

    [–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 14 points 1 year ago

    RED HAT DON'T TOUCH THAT

    RED HAT DON'T TOUCH THAT

    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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?

    [–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year 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.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

    Are ... Are there any more of these?

    And does OpenSuse use a tumbleweed as a transport system?

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

    Technically not a GPL violation

    [–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Would have been even better if the wolf was wearing a black hat and holding the red.

    [–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's not a wolf, that's Swiper the Fox. Swiper no swiping, Swiper no swiping, Swiper no swiping!

    https://youtu.be/JmpooFefGTU

    [–] Hominine@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Damn, I was wondering how Firefox tied into Red Hat shenanigans. I am officially old, and pinning the blame on this post.

    [–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I must have seen or heard every episode of Dora the Explorer when my kids were little. The other ear worm I'll never get out of my head is:

    https://youtu.be/YJfb4SlhRmY

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