Last Rights
Original: Last Rights on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older man with gray hair and a gray beard, wearing glasses, sits in what appears to be a vehicle seat. A woman with dark hair and glasses, wearing a red sweater and holding a green phone, stands nearby.
Man: Open source is EVERYTHING. I will never stop pushing for it, even after I die!
Woman: Wait what? What does that mean?
Panel 2 (header banner: LATER...):
A tombstone stands on a grassy hillside under a blue sky.
Gravestone text: HERE LIES STEVE. CONTENTS OF GRAVE MAY BE MODIFIED AND USED COMMERCIALLY WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION
Votey:
A close-up of the dead man's face.
Man (from grave): I wish I had a name other than Steve, and a known date of birth...
An older man with gray hair and a gray beard, wearing glasses, sits in what appears to be a vehicle seat. A woman with dark hair and glasses, wearing a red sweater and holding a green phone, stands nearby.
Man: Open source is EVERYTHING. I will never stop pushing for it, even after I die!
Woman: Wait what? What does that mean?
Panel 2 (header banner: LATER...):
A tombstone stands on a grassy hillside under a blue sky.
Gravestone text: HERE LIES STEVE. CONTENTS OF GRAVE MAY BE MODIFIED AND USED COMMERCIALLY WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION
Votey:
A close-up of the dead man's face.
Man (from grave): I wish I had a name other than Steve, and a known date of birth...
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: an older bearded man in glasses, seated, declares to a woman in a red sweater holding a phone, "Open source is EVERYTHING. I will never stop pushing for it, even after I die!" The woman replies, confused, "Wait what? What does that mean?" Panel two, under a banner reading "LATER...": a tombstone on a green hillside reads "HERE LIES STEVE. CONTENTS OF GRAVE MAY BE MODIFIED AND USED COMMERCIALLY WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION" -- the man licensed his own corpse under an open-source license. Votey: a close-up of the dead man's slack face as he thinks, "I wish I had a name other than Steve, and a known date of birth..." -- riffing on open-source license requirements to identify the author.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.