[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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