Audio: Mark Shuttleworth Marketed to Young Males, With Sexy Pictures
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2022-05-15 22:54:19 UTC
Modified: 2022-05-16 08:01:39 UTC
The Web is rotting away, old links become broken links within months or years, so I've decided to encode a 3-minute segment of the whole as Ogg.
Partial trascript (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.’”
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