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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE-1.1.2: Comments on all-new Wallpapers
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-09-06 14:34:11
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On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Espen Sand wrote:
> > On man, 06 sep 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > >Richard Moore wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> Duncan Haldane wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > (3)  The  Big_leaves themes is a nice soothing vegetation background, but
> > >> > the particular plant species shown might be a little, ummm, ``controversial'', in
> > >> > some parts of the world.  (I guess this is one of the surviving
> > >> > older wallpapers?)  Maybe it shouldn't be in the base KDE distribution.
> > >> 
> > >> I think you are misidentifying the plant, it is a maple leaf not a hash
> > >> plant.
> > >> 
> > >You bet? I'm afraid you'd loose. maple leafs are way rounder. But this
> > >is
> > >off topic
> > >
> > 
> > Off topic or not. Such images can quickly turn into in bad pr. It is far
> > easier to remove the image now than to recover from such attacks/rumors 
> > later.
> 
> Imagine that you get caught for drunk driving. That would be bad PR for KDE. 
> "Look what a bad example these KDE developers are!" So to prevent this bad 
> KDE PR it would be better if you stop working for KDE now just in case.
> 

Would you advocate someone putting a jpeg of someone drinking Jack Daniels
while driving in kdebase? We are not showing someone smoking a doobie so it's
not really the same thing, but I just fail to see why we should include a
picture of pot if it is likely to cause issues (and it will). It *does* come
across as an endorsement, and there is no reason to be doing such a thing IMHO.

> Cheers,
> Waldo
> --
> The worst kind of censorship is self-censorship.
-- 
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com

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