[UbuntuWomen] questionnable stuff on french ubuntu planet

[Vid Ayer]

Hi :)

On 5/10/07, Matthias Urlichs <smurf at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> "Matthias". You're welcome anyway. ;-)

.. noted :)

> For what it's worth, though, the image (or rather, the blog feed to
> planet-fr where it was posted) was removed because of copyright and
> trademark violations.

yes, the image has "ubuntu-br.org" on it. Since  "ubuntu-br.org"
belongs to Canonical, is that what you mean by TM violations ?


> The French community was apparently still
> discussing whether removing the stuff was called for :-/ when we told
> them to drop the stuff.

Ahh.. the classic ... it was against "freedom" and "satire" , and Foss
is all about Freedom...


> Strange? No. Just very annoying, IMHO.

Strange because IMHO Linux (includes all forms of
technology/science/whatever) as a product does not need (to use images
of women as) crutches and can walk on its own technical merits.


> Some people truly do not see the difference between those images and,

... perhaps they do not wish to see the difference and usually argue
that its against freedom (or something equally abstract and debatable,
ad infinitum).

I am glad that you and Jono (and others) took this seriously and acted
on it. Hoping to hear about the Guidelines soon.
While on the subject, it would be nice if there were some guidelines
on online social behaviour. In light of earlier experiences many women
face this problem so having a document we can point to and say "hey
this is inappropriate behaviour, go read this <link>" , is a good
place to start.  This saves us the problem of explaining and defining
what is ok/or not, ad nauseam.

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