Re: Very sad: a serial killer in art.gnome

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 09:39 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:38:04PM +0200, Antonius Iesus wrote:
> > I'm just a user and I would never have thought of finding myself
> > writing to the gnome community, but sadly I have found myself morally
> > forced to do so.
> 
> Understood. Still, please stick to one mailing list only
> (gnome-themes-list). I've ensured it only appears on gnome-themes-list
> fwiw.
> 
> > A few minutes ago I was changing the background of my desktop and
> > clicked on the link to the backgrounds page in art.gnome site. Then,
> > in page #6 I find a picture titled "Hasta siempre" (forever!) of
> > Ernesto "Che" Guevara, one of worst sadistic serial killers known in
> > the whole history of mankind and turned into one of the biggest icons
> > of socialist totalitarianism.
> > 
> > Let me tell you that watching "that thing" have made me feel very sad,
> > as I believed and still believe that Gnome is not the place for that
> > kind of stuff, the same way that Gnome is not the place for showing
> > pictures of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro or any
> > kind of monsters like these ones, and the same way Gnome is not the
> > place for finding any type of apology of criminal ideologies.
> > 
> > I'm sorry I'm writing to all of you but first, I have not found any
> > e-mail address of administrators of gnome, an second, Gnome is a
> > community and as member of this community (as user and occasional bug
> > reporter) I think I have the right to share this thoughts with all of
> > you.
> 
> There are no 'administrators of GNOME'. Anyway, I've cc'ed the board.
> 
> board: full reference to the current thread (different opinions, etc):
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-themes-list/2010-June/msg00000.html
> 
> > The links:
> > 
> > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/art.gnome.org/backgrounds/OTHER-HastaSiempre_1024x768.jpg
> > http://art.gnome.org/backgrounds/?page=6
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Olav

Antonius,

Thank you for your email and sharing your concerns regarding the artwork
available for download on art.gnome.org.

Our current policy is that we do not censor the artwork available.  As
the email thread in gnome-themes shows, different countries and cultures
have different views of political figures and we do not plan to change
our current policy at this time.

Thank you again for taking the time to share your concerns.

Paul Cutler