Community response of new ubuntu artwork
John Harvey
linux at monkeyc.net
Sun Oct 17 23:11:33 UTC 2004
Was it your intention to come across as spoilt 4 year old with this post
or is that just a fringe benefit.
Community discussion is healthy, but frankly there seem to be a small
number of people here whose idea of discussion is i am right and you are
an idiot. This is what i like to call the 'worst side of community
projects'
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 08:43 -0400, GR Gaudreau wrote:
> WAAAAA WAAAAAA.... I'm going to take my marbles and play somewhere else
> if people post opinions I don't like. Give it a rest! Take your Volvo
> out for a drive and chill.
>
> On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 08:20 -0400, volvoguy wrote:
> > All right. Enough of the insults. I find it rather hypocritical to
> > post a message full of insults and then say everyone that doesn't
> > agree with you needs to grow up.
> >
> > I don't really care what you think of religion or morality - and I
> > don't care that you don't care what I think. The MAJORITY of the posts
> > on this subject are referring to the graphics being inappropriate in a
> > business or school environment. That doesn't have anything to do with
> > religion or morality.
> >
> > When I was working for one of the United States largest technology
> > companies, I would have gotten in trouble for having a fully clothed
> > picture of my girlfriend on my desktop - hell, even a picture of my
> > cat. In fact, I would have gotten in trouble for discussing religion
> > at work, so that sure wasn't their motivation behind the rules.
> >
> > Please, from now on let's follow the rule that mom taught us - If you
> > don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The last
> > message in this thread didn't even have anything to do with the issues
> > at hand - it was outright name calling and insults. If this continues,
> > I'm going to ditch Ubuntu because of the immaturity of the community
> > and not even worry about the appropriateness of the background image.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
>
>
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John Harvey
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