Community response of new ubuntu artwork

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Matt we are not talking about rolling out pre release we are making a point that
this scares corporates who might think it could happen in the release version..

linux scares corporate people, this is hard for some of us to comprehend but its
reality - the fact that it changes so rapidly can be frightening to staid
managers and CIO's used to windows glacial change patterns..

Quoting Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com>:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:17:03AM +1000, John Harvey wrote:
> 
> > The fact that this was done without warning and without consultation
> > scares us in corporate IT to death because its the one thing that will
> > make our efforts to push linux into corporate fail.  If customers dont
> > trust the OS not to do this sort of thing to their corporate desktops they
> > wont use it.
> > 
> > it might not seem like much to you but a corporate sees this sort of
> > change and begins to think "what if its pron next time?"
> 
> This sort of argument doesn't hold water.  No sensible enterprise would
> engage in a large-scale deployment of pre-release software without serious
> consideration and commitments.
> 
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