● 07.11.10

●● A Sexy Dawn of Ubuntu Branding

Posted in GNU/Linux, Novell, Ubuntu at 4:24 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: An old audiocast contains interesting bits about the early days of Canonical (Ubuntu)

JEFF Waugh, who doesn’t code but was one of Canonical’s first employees, spoke to FLOSS Weekly a few years ago. Here is the direct link [MP3]. It has some fascinating bits and criticism of Novell, which has Google’s Chris DiBona involved too. But here is an interesting part which merely starts an interesting conversation about Ubuntu marketing.

↺ spoke to FLOSS Weekly a few years ago

↺ direct link

Jeff Waugh [15:59]: “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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