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Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Posted Dec 29, 2005 0:34 UTC (Thu) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)Parent article: An Evening with Jeff Waugh (Linux Journal)
Put up a site somewhere at which contributors pay to name the woman who's asked to do the modelling when Mark finally gets his way?
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Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Posted Dec 29, 2005 2:37 UTC (Thu) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]
He did, at least for a while; actually, it's what first attracted my attention to the distro. IIRC, you can still get these images via the ubuntu-calendar packages.
Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Posted Dec 29, 2005 12:06 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
The quoted site mismatches nude and porn. Next thing they'll call pedophile a guy who takes pictures of his baby in bath! Some people's view of the world frightens me, and they seem mostly located in the most powerful country in the world [shiver]!
Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Posted Dec 29, 2005 13:17 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]
Completely agree. It's a shame they stopped making those beautiful wallpapers :(
Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Posted Dec 30, 2005 11:39 UTC (Fri) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]
Agreed, in a strict sense of word definitions. But given that the industry has a problem with gender equality (especially true in the Linux world, as noted on Debian-Women or just read LWN or Slashdot any time a woman shows up and lots of comments about her sex), if Mark wants to create a Linux distribution "for everybody", I don't think it was a good idea to use male cultural references (nudie art) as a first impression to the users. The clothed people used instead was a much better idea.
Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Posted Dec 30, 2005 11:47 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]
Agreed, but choice is good :D
Nudie art
Posted Jan 7, 2006 18:55 UTC (Sat) by ilmari (subscriber, #14175) [Link]
Well, the January calendar had a male model (albeit wearing boxer shorts), and the October one had all the three models (one male and two female, of which one black), sot it's not all male cultural references.
Also, these backgrounds (and the GDM login screen featuring the same models) were not the default ones, you had to explicitly select them.
That fails their own guidelines
Posted Dec 30, 2005 3:08 UTC (Fri) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]
Needs one more gender and two more races.
Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Posted Jan 5, 2006 21:30 UTC (Thu) by aigarius (subscriber, #7329) [Link]
That's my favourite desktop background. Ever.