From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 20 16:57:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02388 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:57:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA02155 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:57:12 GMT (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa12710; 20 Apr 98 19:57 EDT Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.67.12]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12761; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:57:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA21655; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:56:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:56:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Robert Watson cc: Irving Popovetsky , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen Shot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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