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[[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 [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the two enemies with black bowler hats who represent 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. | [[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 [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the two enemies with black bowler hats who represent 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. | ||
| โ | Just when the two men have been defeated, Elaine asks how Stallman knew they where in trouble, and he tells it was his friend who told him about it. Climbing down a rope from the sky, the friend enters with a red cape and goggles. It turns out it is | + | Just when the two men have been defeated, Elaine asks how Stallman knew they where in trouble, and he tells it was his friend who told him about it. Climbing down a rope from the sky, the friend enters with a red cape and goggles. 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 is climbing down from his balloon. He uses the balloon 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, as if it were a portion of the atmosphere 20 km up over the tag clouds. |
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. At this point we see that Mrs. Roberts is still programming while this fight and discussion take place. Her son [[Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--]] comes and tells her he is hungry, but she tells him that she does not have time when she is coding, and that he ate yesterday. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. However, she may still be a very young adult, in which case her little brother could still be shorter than his mom (we see in Part 2 that, from age 11, she studied with [[Donald Knuth]] for four years, making her 15 when she left. However, it is not clear how long she was away from home after that). | 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. At this point we see that Mrs. Roberts is still programming while this fight and discussion take place. Her son [[Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--]] comes and tells her he is hungry, but she tells him that she does not have time when she is coding, and that he ate yesterday. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. However, she may still be a very young adult, in which case her little brother could still be shorter than his mom (we see in Part 2 that, from age 11, she studied with [[Donald Knuth]] for four years, making her 15 when she left. However, it is not clear how long she was away from home after that). | ||
