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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: KDE_1_1_2_RELEASE: kdebase/pics/wallpapers
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-09-08 12:11:34
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No, you all seem to be making up way too many points to this trivial issue.
Hell, just last night they were making fun of an accidental pot plant picture
on the popular NBC "Tonight show with Jay Leno". While I have nothing against
this subject (I really don't care), I don't see any benefit to putting us in
a similar position in the official distribution. I would say the same thing
if kdebase had hard alchohol wallpaper, overtly religious wallpaper, or
something similar. Make as many wallpapers as you want for yourself and
distribute them with your distributions, I have invested significant free time
and energy trying to make KDE accepted and taken seriously by US developers and
users (you would be suprised just how much time). A wallpaper isn't important
enough to justify messing with that (or having this and the other thread we
had).   

On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, Mosfet wrote:
> > My god! I have never heard so much bitching about something as insignificant as
> > the loss of one wallpaper in order to avoid making a bad image for ourselves.
> > People have used it as a platform to bash the states, wax poetic about how
> > boring we are going to become, use it to contrast the value systems of
> > countries, and all sorts of stupid shit. Do whatever you want, I don't care
> > anymore. I feel like this is like children who had their favorite toy taken
> > away. All over a damn wallpaper. Grow up!
> 
> You seem to miss the point.
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo
-- 
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com

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