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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This is the fifth and last part of five in the "[[:Category:1337|1337]]" series. The title 1337 is "L-eet, | + | {{incomplete|Missing great explanation of Stallman proposal to join GNU and what about his encourage sharing in the public mind?}} |
+ | This is the fifth and last part of five in the "[[:Category:1337|1337]]" series. The title 1337 is "L-eet", or "elite", using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet. | ||
− | + | All comics in the series: | |
− | * [[341: 1337: Part 1]] | + | *[[341: 1337: Part 1]] |
− | * [[342: 1337: Part 2]] | + | *[[342: 1337: Part 2]] |
− | * [[343: 1337: Part 3]] | + | *[[343: 1337: Part 3]] |
− | * [[344: 1337: Part 4]] | + | *[[344: 1337: Part 4]] |
− | * [[345: 1337: Part 5]] | + | *[[345: 1337: Part 5]] |
+ | This series was released on 5 consecutive days (Monday-Friday) and not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule. | ||
+ | The comic is narrated by [[Cueball]] as seen in part 2 comic, but that Cueball is not shown here, but still he is part of this comic series, and thus also this comic, as he narrates the epilogue. | ||
− | + | {{w|Richard Stallman}} is the ardent defender of freedom and believer in {{w|copyleft}}, he also founded the {{w|GNU Project}}. (He is not really a sword fighter but is always depicted with swords when [[:Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman|featured in xkcd]], which is in this series and in [[225: Open Source]]). | |
− | + | In the previous part he came to the rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpowers the two enemies with black bowler hats that represents The {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}}, (MPAA) and the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA) use the {{w|Digital Millenium Copyright Act}} who had found out about the Roberts hacking. | |
− | + | Just when the two men have been defeated Elaine asks how Stallman knew they where in trouble and he tels it was his friend that told him about it. The friend enters by climbing down a rope from the sky with red cape and googles. It turns out it is {{w|Cory Doctorow}}, a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog {{w|Boing Boing}}. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the {{w|Creative Commons}} organization. He does not really travel around in a balloon or (usually) wear a red cape, but [[Randall]] introduced this idea in [[239: Blagofaire]] and has continued it in later [[:Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow|comics featuring Cory Doctorow]]. So he in climbing down from his ballon. | |
− | + | He uses the balloon to to construct the {{w|Blogosphere}}, which is a name used to refer to all blogs on the Internet, many of which frequently link to and refer to other blogs. Here, the Stallman character talks about it as though Cory Doctorow actually constructs it and Cory Doctorow talks about it as if it were a portion of the atmosphere 20 km up over the tag clods... | |
− | Stallman is against her idea of going for straight war with the industry and | + | Blogs often label posts with keywords, known as tags. A {{w|Tag cloud}} is a way of displaying the tags on a site where the more common tags appear in larger type than less-common ones. It has no relationship to actual water vapor clouds in the sky, but in the comic, the Doctorow character suggests that tag clouds are actually in the air, below the new blogosphere. |
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+ | At this point we see that Mrs. Roberts still sits programming while this fight and discussion takes place. Her son [[Little Bobby Tables]] comes and tells her he is hungry, but mommy does not have time when she is coding, and tells him that he ate yesterday, so what's the problem. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. But she may still be a very young adult, in which case her little brother could still be lower than his mom. | ||
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+ | Stallman give Elaine a proposal to join {{w|GNU}} as a coder. But she is not ready yet as she wished to take down the industry of MPPA and RIAA as ''Music doesn't need these assholes.'' In the meantime Cory Doctorow throws the bowler hat guys out and ask them never to "darken our comment thread again". | ||
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+ | Stallman is against her idea of going for straight war with the industry, and suggest she helps encourage sharing in the public mind. And then Doctorow chimes in with a suggestion that she has the ability to build a better {{w|P2P}} systems. To which she asks if they mean straight up piracy? And this leads up to the punch line of the pun, when Doctorow says she would make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts! | ||
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+ | Peer-to-peer (often abbreviated P2P) system is a network system where tasks are partitioned between participants with equal privileges, in contrast with the client-server model, where the client makes requests and the server provides service. A common example of a peer-to-peer system is the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, which is often (mis)used for distribution of pirated software and media. | ||
The {{w|Dread Pirate Roberts}} is a fictional character from the book and movie {{w|The Princess Bride}}. Roberts is the most feared pirate on the seas. But, "Dread Pirate Roberts" is merely a title that has been passed down as previous "Roberts" have gained enough money (from piracy) to retire comfortably. Westley, one of the main characters from The Princess Bride, becomes the Dread Pirate after being taken prisoner by the preceding Pirate Roberts. It is anyone's guess whether the entire 5-comic story, starting from the choice of Mrs. Roberts' name, began as just a lead-up to this one joke. At the end of the movie, Inigo Montoya has won the vengeance he has sought all his life, and expresses to Westley that he doesn't know what to do next. Westley suggests Montoya succeed him as Roberts, saying, "Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts." Cory Doctorow's line in the comic therefore mimics that line from the movie. | The {{w|Dread Pirate Roberts}} is a fictional character from the book and movie {{w|The Princess Bride}}. Roberts is the most feared pirate on the seas. But, "Dread Pirate Roberts" is merely a title that has been passed down as previous "Roberts" have gained enough money (from piracy) to retire comfortably. Westley, one of the main characters from The Princess Bride, becomes the Dread Pirate after being taken prisoner by the preceding Pirate Roberts. It is anyone's guess whether the entire 5-comic story, starting from the choice of Mrs. Roberts' name, began as just a lead-up to this one joke. At the end of the movie, Inigo Montoya has won the vengeance he has sought all his life, and expresses to Westley that he doesn't know what to do next. Westley suggests Montoya succeed him as Roberts, saying, "Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts." Cory Doctorow's line in the comic therefore mimics that line from the movie. | ||
− | {{w|Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road}} was an online | + | {{w|Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road}} was an online black market designed to allow criminals to trade in drugs, guns and other illegal items, run by a person also using the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. However, this black market did not exist until four years after this comic was published. |
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+ | In the epilogue several items of interest is revealed about the Roberts later life. | ||
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+ | Elaine shared her ideas with {{w|Bram Cohen}} who went on from that to found {{w|BitTorrent}}, a distributed method of downloading files. People can and do use BitTorrent both for lawful file downloads and also for sharing media files unlawfully. Its distributed nature, where someone does not download a file from just one other computer but rather in many pieces from many other computers with the same file, makes it more difficult for record and movie industry groups to police, and therefore a person with Elaine's motivations might be interested in helping design such a system. | ||
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+ | Mrs. Roberts developed for {{w|Ubuntu}} which is probably the most well known distribution of GNU/{{w|Linux}}. A GNU/Linux distribution (often referred to simply as "Linux") is any operating system that is based on GNU software and the Linux {{w|kernel}}. | ||
− | + | She also went after any website (defacing them) that made {{w|Your Mom|''Your'' mom}} joke about her daughter. This is a [[:Category:Your Mom|recurring theme]] on xkcd. | |
− | Finally | + | Finally a bit more info is given on how Elaine continues her fight, joins communities, help with codes etc. And then sometimes she streams her music live on a IP address, and if you happen to find one of these with a streaming audio player you can hear her rock out (a reference to her music career mentioned at the end of the third part). |
− | The | + | The final phrase "Happy Hacking" often accompanies an autograph from Richard Stallman. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[The two men in black bowler hats (RIAA and MPAA agents as known from the previous comic) with their | + | :[The two men in black bowler hats (RIAA and MPAA agents as known from the previous comic) with their katana swords are attacked by Elaine Robert with her folding knife and Richard Stallman with his own two katana swords. Elaine kicks the RIAA man to the left in the back of his leg, while Stallman jumps over the MPAA man to the right, flying high over him from right to left in a flying maneuver hitting his sword while hanging parallel to the ground above the man.] |
:Elaine: Thanks, Stallman! | :Elaine: Thanks, Stallman! | ||
:Richard Stallman: 'Tis my pleasure. | :Richard Stallman: 'Tis my pleasure. | ||
− | :[Elaine stands to the left with her knife in one hand having folded it down again. Richard Stallman stands between the two men with bowler hats who are now lying on the floor on either side of him | + | :[Elaine stands to the left with her knife in one hand having folded it down again. Richard Stallman stands between the two men with bowler hats who are now lying on the floor on either side of him each with one of Stallman's sword pointing at their throat. Stallman has both arms fulle stretched towards them as he looks straight out of the panel. The left (RIAA) man lies flat on his back his hat and katana sword lying behind him. The right (MPAA) man is sitting on his knee leaning as far back as he can, since the sword is almost touching his skin on his throat. He wears his hat, but the sword lies behind him, out of reach, even though he is leaning back on one hand close to it. To the far right a rope comes down from the top of the panel falling down on the ground so a section of it stretches even farther right in the picture. Down this rope comes a man with googles and a red cape, which is black on the inside. This is Cory Doctorow. He holds on to the rope with two hands one over one just under his head.] |
:Elaine: So, wait - how did you know we were in trouble? | :Elaine: So, wait - how did you know we were in trouble? | ||
:Richard Stallman: My friend here was tracking these thugs from his balloon. | :Richard Stallman: My friend here was tracking these thugs from his balloon. | ||
− | :Richard Stallman: He called me and I thought I'd stop by | + | :Richard Stallman: He called me and I thought I'd stop by |
:Cory Doctorow: -Hi! | :Cory Doctorow: -Hi! | ||
− | :Cory Doctorow: Cory Doctorow - It's a pleasure to meet you. | + | :Cory Doctorow: -Cory Doctorow - It's a pleasure to meet you. |
− | :[Elaine has shifted the knife to the other hand. Richard Stallman has moved to the left of the RIAA man, so both bowler hat men are between him and Cory Doctorow. Stallman still points his sword in their direction, but they are lowered. The RIAA man closest to him has picked up his hat in one hand and reaches for his sword with the other hand. The MPAA man now lies on his back, one arm up | + | :[Elaine has shifted the knife to the other hand. Richard Stallman has moved to the left of the RIAA man, so both bowler hat men are between him and Cory Doctorow. Stallman still points his sword in their direction, but they are lowered. The RIAA man closest to him, has picked up his hat in one hand and reaches for his sword with the other hand. The MPAA man now lies on his back, one arm up leaning on the other. His sword is gone. It does not seem like Doctorow could have taken it. Behind him Doctorow has reached the ground, the rope hangs behind him. He points left.] |
:Elaine: Balloon? | :Elaine: Balloon? | ||
:Richard Stallman: Aye. They're up there constructing something called a "Blogosphere." | :Richard Stallman: Aye. They're up there constructing something called a "Blogosphere." | ||
:Cory Doctorow: Yup! It's twenty kilometers up, just above the tag clouds. | :Cory Doctorow: Yup! It's twenty kilometers up, just above the tag clouds. | ||
− | :[The scene is contracted, so to the left | + | :[The scene is contracted, so to the left Mrs. Roberts at her desk with her chair and laptop becomes visible (from the previous comic). This witout the other people have moved closer. She still types as her son Lille Bobby Tables enters and lifts a hand in his mothers direction. He is drawn as a child version of Cueball. Elaine has put the knife away, and looks at Richard Stallman who now stand straight looking at her, with the swords crossed in front of his legs. Behind him just right of the rope hanging down, Cory Doctorow lift one of the bowler hat guys up by the throat while looking right and talking to him. The other bowler hat guy has left the panel. The one he holds has his hat but no sword.] |
:Little Bobby Tables: Mom, I'm hungry. | :Little Bobby Tables: Mom, I'm hungry. | ||
− | :Mrs. Roberts: Hush | + | :Mrs. Roberts: Hush! I'm coding. You ate yesterday. |
:Richard Stallman: You know, Roberts, GNU could use a good coder like you. Ever thought of joining us? | :Richard Stallman: You know, Roberts, GNU could use a good coder like you. Ever thought of joining us? | ||
:Elaine: Maybe someday. Right now I've got an industry to take down. | :Elaine: Maybe someday. Right now I've got an industry to take down. | ||
:Elaine: Music doesn't need these assholes. | :Elaine: Music doesn't need these assholes. | ||
− | :Cory Doctorow: Begone | + | :Cory Doctorow: Begone! And never darken our comment threads again! |
− | :[Zoom in on Elaine, Richard Stallman | + | :[Zoom in on Elaine, Richard Stallman and Cory Doctorow. She stand straight looking at Stallman who faces towards her swords now on his back crossed. Doctorow is also facing her and holds out both arms towards her. The rope is now outside the panel as are both bowler hat men.] |
:Richard Stallman: Well, you won't fix the industry with random exploits. You need to encourage sharing in the public mind. | :Richard Stallman: Well, you won't fix the industry with random exploits. You need to encourage sharing in the public mind. | ||
:Doctorow: Hey; With your music and coding backgrounds, you should get into building better P2P systems. | :Doctorow: Hey; With your music and coding backgrounds, you should get into building better P2P systems. | ||
− | :[The final panel is only a third of the length of the previous panel. The three are still in the panel | + | :[The final panel is only a third of the length of the previous panel. The three are still in the panel but they have moved and are also drawn somewhat smaller. Elaine still faces them right, but now Cory Doctorow is in front of Richard Stallman swords as before. All have their arms down.] |
:Elaine: What? Straight-up piracy? | :Elaine: What? Straight-up piracy? | ||
− | :Cory Doctorow: Sure - have you ever considered it? You'd make a wonderful dread pirate, Roberts | + | :Cory Doctorow: Sure- have you ever considered it? You'd make a wonderful dread pirate, Roberts |
− | :[To the right of the final panel is a two | + | :[To the right of the final panel is a two column epilogue narrated by Cueball as seen in part 2. It is split in three paragraphs and a "signature". The caption above is centered over the two columns] |
− | :<big> | + | :<big><u>Epilogue</u></big> |
:Cueball (narrating): Elaine shared her ideas with Bram Cohen, who went on to develop BitTorrent. | :Cueball (narrating): Elaine shared her ideas with Bram Cohen, who went on to develop BitTorrent. | ||
− | : Mrs. Roberts spends her time developing for Ubuntu, and defacing the websites of people who make "your mom" jokes to her daughter. | + | :Cueball (narrating): Mrs. Roberts spends her time developing for Ubuntu, and defacing the websites of people who make "your mom" jokes to her daughter. |
− | : Elaine still stalks the net. She joins communities, contributes code or comments, and moves on. And if, late at night, you point a streaming audio player at the right IP at the right time - you can hear her rock out. | + | :Cueball (narrating): Elaine still stalks the net. She joins communities, contributes code or comments, and moves on. And if, late at night, you point a streaming audio player at the right IP at the right time - you can hear her rock out. |
− | : ~Happy Hacking.~ | + | :Cueball (narrating): ~Happy Hacking.~ |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:1337|05]] | [[Category:1337|05]] | ||
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[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
− | [[Category:Comics featuring | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Elaine Roberts]] |
[[Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman]] | ||
− | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] <!--Not the kid, | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] <!--Not the kid, that is bobby, but the narrator as per. part 2 who tells the epilogue is Cueball ans thus he is in this comic--> |
[[Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Mrs. Roberts]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Mrs. Roberts]] | ||
− | [[Category:Comics featuring | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Little Bobby Tables]] |
[[Category:Comics featuring real people]] | [[Category:Comics featuring real people]] | ||
[[Category:Your Mom]] | [[Category:Your Mom]] | ||
[[Category:Computers]] | [[Category:Computers]] | ||
[[Category:Music]] | [[Category:Music]] | ||
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