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Comment by unixhero | Hacker News Reader

I love the picture of a woman, to show off the window manager/gui. Very 1990s :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Edit: Maybe someone should edit the Wikipedia intro that overly insists on very modern issues on gender. Lena herself happily participated to several research conferences on image processing: https://www.icip2015.org/banquet.html

Times change and people realize how inappropriate it is. She herself has called for an end to the use of the image as a relic of a male dominated field.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/How-a-Nude-Playboy-Photo...

Inappropriate selling yourself as a centerfold for Playboy or using the image?

The latter, obviously.

Is it truly the case? 2015 is not that far away, and from a personal account she was happy to be there and proud to have her image used in a research community.

When you read your article, it seems the _journalist_ tried to extract a saying from her. So she says something quite vague instead, mentioning "time to retire" again... because it's what is going to happen because of "time changes.

When you build your own OS from scratch it's your prerogative to use it as you see fit :P

After all you're representing yourself, not society or even a community. It doesn't have to represent the whole breadth of society.

If the maker is interested in woman it's not a bad thing. If it had been made by a women perhaps she'd have used a Chippendale image?

Context about the picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

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