Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:56:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen Shot Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980420195516.20973B-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418161700.15725M-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Robert Watson wrote: > > So one unfortunate thing about the AfterStep and Enlightenment screen > shots is as follows: a number of people I showed them to indicated that > the objectified women (scantily clad) weren't so very encouraging when it > came to selecting a desktop for use in a business. They were more > interested in a professional-looking interface than this :). Microsoft, > for example, does not advertise their Scantily-Clad Women Desktop Theme as > a major feature of their windows products. While it would be unrealistic > to expect that people do not use X-Windows for this kind of thing, > attempting to advertise a product as a competitor with WindowsNT as a > business server platform might benefit from a little less of this :). Yes, ths is clearly inappropriate and off-putting. If we ever do roll a FreeBSD/Pro edition, such politically incorrect features should be separated out into optional add ons and not part of the default configuration. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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