Community response of new ubuntu artwork

[Marius Bock]

I have to agree with Will on this and as a fellow countryman of Mark 
Shuttleworth who lives in a country where one's skin color was once a big 
dividing line between people.  However that has now changed and we all live for 
the most part in harmony with one another and Ubuntu (not the Linux but the 
Xhosa word) has a lot to do with this.

In the end it is not Mark and his team that is going to make Ubuntu (the Linux) 
succeed but us as human beings that is using it on a daily basis.  If we do not 
move the frontiers and experiment how are we going to move ahead?

Yes we might not all agree with the Artwork but hey it got us as a community 
talking and as far as I am concerned, there is always progress when a community 
still talks.

I am sure some middle way can be found that will please the majority of us.

To Mark and his team -- keep up the good work and I will do my bit to spread the 
word in my part of the world -- and that include showing the controversial 
Artwork from time to time.

Marius Bock -- marius at henriska.co.za
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Ubuntu Forums Post wrote:
> The fact that there is controversy indicates how few differences there are in this aspect of other Linux distributions. While the rest of the world has satisfied themselves with blue, with penguins, butterflies, lizards, and the like, Mr. Shuttleworth and his colleagues have closen a powerful tool with which to bring humanity into the computing picture, both literally and metaphorically.
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> If one doesn't like murder, don't commit it; if one doesn't like abortion, don't get one; if one doesn't like a computer's desktop photograph, chose a different one. One will find that one is still in the same world, on the same planet and, with the exception of Mr. Shuttleworth and a few others, no one I know has exceeded those limitations.
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> But, because of the bravery of people such as Mr. Shuttleworth, who show us extrordiary things can be done, perhaps some day we'll even be able to change to a different celestial body than the one to which we are currently shackled.
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> The Sistine Chapel, Hindu dioramas, Egytian ruins, and many old public government buildings in many countries are adorned with the vagaries of the human form. Christ is portrayed as a scantly-clad figure on the cross.
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> Our challenge is not to decide what humans looks like, but how to coexist with all the marvelous varieties we see. We may be, after all, the only eyes that the Universe has produced to look back upon itself. Yet we find it difficult to look at each other.
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> Computers are made for complex communication and complex communication is a uniquely human gift.
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> Wisely used, complex communication can change the outcome of the Twenty-first Century.
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> To argue small things in not a step in the right direction.
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> Toward peace,
> Wil
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