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Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Funding opportunity for Ubuntu
Posted Dec 29, 2005 13:17 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814)In reply to: Funding opportunity for Ubuntu by rvfh
Parent article: An Evening with Jeff Waugh (Linux Journal)
Completely agree. It's a shame they stopped making those beautiful wallpapers :(
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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.