Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 1:06 UTC (Thu) by cowsandmilk (guest, #55475)
In reply to: Ubuntu changing its look by gerv
Parent article: Ubuntu changing its look

Too many gooks are moving to Apple, so they have to replicate Apple's design decision to put the
close, etc. on the left....

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 12:05 UTC (Thu) by cmsj (guest, #55014) [Link] (4 responses)

too many *what*?!

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 13:51 UTC (Thu) by skvidal (guest, #3094) [Link] (2 responses)

I reported the comment with the racial slur to lwn@lwn.net LATE last night.

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:00 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

I suspect the word was probably not intended to be used as a racial slur (I had to look it up).

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:31 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

If it were meant as a racial slur, I would think it would have made more sense. As it is, it looks much more like a typo. This incident reminds me of an old George Carlin bit where he talks about the "7 dirty words you can't say on TV" - none of those, however, were racial slurs.

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:13 UTC (Thu) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link]

I strongly suspect this is a typo/thinko for "geeks". It would be an enormous non-sequitur for it to be a racial slur on South-East Asians. (I had to look that up too.) Calm down :-)

Gerv

Let's be careful please

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:10 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I don't know if this was meant to be offensive or not, but I certainly expect that some readers will take it that way. I believe an apology would be in order, and let's not see any more of this kind of slur, please?