Defining the Linux identity

[Aaron Gaudio]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 19:22 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> I'd hate to see us lose the irreverence to placate the buttoned-down crowd. 
> The world is already too joyless for that. I love the witty little nuggets 
> one finds buried in technical stuff. Anybody remember the embossed 
> signatures on the inside of the Amiga 1000 case, later replicated in other 
> products like Sun's 386i? But humor is in the eye of the beholder, so 
> there's *always* the risk of offending someone.

Yes, but the risk is that much greater when you refer to genitalia in a
publicly-viewable application (and one that is usually running when the
user is not at his desk to moderate it).

As pointed out elsewhere, the barcode screensaver actually has more
offensive content. This would be funny and non-offensive if it remained
an inside joke by not displaying what the barcode translated to, but
since the screensaver does, it not only makes it potentially offensive,
but also ruins some of the value of such an inside joke.

-- 
Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org>