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A Debian bug caused by Playboy
- glofish 6y agothe classic instance of "men know better what women could possibly want" so let us men remove the image of a woman without even consulting her of whether she minds being on this picture > "At the conference, she was busy signing autographs, posing for pictures, and giving a presentation about herself. Lenna commented to the Wired reporter: "They must be so tired of me ... looking at the same picture for all these years!"
- GuB-42 6y agoThe argument about sexism is, I think silly. That's unless there is a peer reviewed paper showing otherwise, this is science after all. But the copyright argument makes sense. Debian is very strict in that regard. Going as far as to rename Firefox to Iceweasel to avoid issues with the brand and logo. I wonder why it is back to Firefox btw, did the license change?
- anonymousiam 6y agoThat image (cropped to be SFW) has been ubiquitous in the electronic imaging industry for at least three decades. It was selected for its color and contrast diversity, not because it is a picture of a playboy model. Most people who have seen it have not seen the full un-cropped original image, so they may not even be aware of the nudity/history/source.
- robocat 6y agoWikipedia has information about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna