what a reaction!

Fred Blaise chapeaurouge at madpenguin.org
Thu Oct 14 01:23:54 UTC 2004


I do not disagree with you. A more neutral theme might be beneficial to
ubuntu.

My fiancee is an elementary school teacher, and she would not use that
for sure. She does put Tux in the backgrounds tho, the kids love it. For
them, a penguin is a "tux"... need to get them early in the game ;) heh



On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 21:13 -0400, Brett Kirksey wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 October 2004 at 19:59-0500, Fred Blaise wrote:
> 
> > All that to say, much fuss for nothing much, IMHO.
> 
> I will say it again (just to make sure it's beaten to
> death), try to get this theme to fly in the enterprise,
> educational institutions, or pretty much any middle eastern
> country. _We_ can believe its "childish" all we want, but there
> are still millions of people who won't use it because of the
> images. If we care about those people using it, we say, "Hey
> let's do something different." If Ubuntu really isn't about
> "humanity" but about people who think one particular way, then
> leave it as is.
> 
> Brett
> 





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