ok,ok, ok - I'll remove the model, you guys win. sigh.
It's not a real Debian ad? What a shame, it should be.
I'm going for a beer - let's agree on that at least ?
;)

-Mike




On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Graham Percival
<gra...@percival-music.ca>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 05:57:02AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Mike Blackstock <blackstock.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I agree. As I pointed out, the model was meant to personify Aquinas'
> > > definition of 'beauty' and tie that in with the beauty of Lilypond. We
> > > disagree on what 'sleaze' is. Not how 'gatekeeper' comes into play and
> > > as for marketing - well, this is free, and I'm defering to the
> > > judgment of the Debian Linux ad, as I thought I made clear.
> >
> > The Debian ad goes to a bit more effort than depicting an arbitrary
> > snapshot of a woman in a swimsuit.  And I still don't see them pulling
> > this off convincingly either.
>
> Wait a moment -- *what* Debian ad?  The 2.bp.blogspot.com image
> has the url linu...blogspot.com, which redirects me to some
> spam-ish site.  There's no way that's an official Debian
> advertisement.
>
> Look folks, anybody can slap some text onto an image.  Back in
> 2001, I found a set of jpegs of naked girls that somebody had
> photoshopped (or "gimped") Linux mascots onto.  Those weren't
> official "linux" advertisements; it was obviously just some horny
> teenagers who thought it would be cute[1] to slap some Linux
> penguins onto chicks.
>
> [1] to be fair, at the time I was in my very early 20s, and I
> thought it was funny too.  Also, there was one picture of a girl
> in a waterfall that was particularly hot.  I can't remember any
> specifics of the images, though.
>
> - Graham
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