[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu , women and artwork...

Micah Cowan micahcowan at ubuntu.com
Fri May 4 11:35:42 UTC 2007


Lorraine Masipa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I agree with all the everyone that thinks this is insensitive to women and 
> also it will affect the way UBUNTU is viewed especially by corporates. I'm 
> from South Africa and a few months the the SA government approved a free and 
> open source strategy and that government would migrate its current software 
> to free and open source software.
> 
> I work for an organisation called IMPI LINUX which offers enterprise OSS 
> solutions based on UBUNTU to public and private sector. I do not think 
> such "artwork" will assist any of us in our endeavour to promote use of OSS 
> specifically UBUNTU within corporate environments. 

Hi Lorraine,

I suspect you misunderstand: this image is /not/ official Ubuntu artwork
in any way, and no one is proposing that it should be accepted as such.
It was just somebody's idea of a joke, apparently.

-Micah





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