Community response of new ubuntu artwork

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i know i made a promise to not comment on this subject anymore but this is
the most intelligent
take i've heard on the subject. 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Seth
Williamson
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:49 PM
To: Ubuntu Users List
Subject: Re: Community response of new ubuntu artwork


David Marsh wrote:

 > I'm afraid I really can't see how anybody can take offense to
 > the login screen, I really do think it's excellent...

Then you haven't worked in an uptight corporate environment where the 
managers are hyper about porn and the very appearance of skin on the 
computer screens of staff 'droids.

It makes no difference in many corporate environments that the splash 
and the wallpaper are not really that racy.  All it takes is one PC type 
to claim that he or she is "offended" by it, and it's lawyer city.

This by itself is enough to disqualify the distro in the minds of many 
corporate managers.  It's insane for a good distro to cripple itself so 
needlessly.

Myself, I don't have much of anything against it, except that I think it 
looks stylish but dumb.  But on my personal computer at home, I can live 
with dumb if the OS itself is good.

But that's NOT the kind of test you have to pass in many production 
environments, and if the creators of this distro can't understand that 
fact of life, then they may as well resign themselves to being just one 
of a gazillion little Debian knock-offs when the potential was so much 
greater.


Seth Williamson
Daleville, VA


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