Speech Controls/Tone-Policing in Debian-Private (Before We Had a Code of Conduct Everywhere)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-08-30 07:16:55 UTC
- Modified: 2020-08-30 07:16:55 UTC
Some dude called "Mark Shuttleworth"
in 1996:
Jeff Waugh:
“What happened was, we’ve had some very… some of the very early initial meetings (when, you know, there were about 10 people) and Mark [Shuttleworth] showed this picture… and it was of a girl called Sabrina, or that’s the name that he gave her. And it was a very [?] tone, Vaseline on the lens kind of shot, and it was a… a very beautiful shot, but it was with a girl with her face turned away but her breasts perfectly visible. And he saying to everyone, ‘this is what I want the desktop to look like.’”
In 1997:
Summary: The very polite "politeness" imposers (focus on words more than underlying substance) as seen in secret mailing lists back in the 1990s
