Louis Desjardins wrote: > On the content, do we agree some pics are controversial, not text? > Please refer to my previous post to Maciej. > Well, we have the heading on the first page after the title page: Make Khajuraho More Sexy. We talk about "the most stunning and erotic sculptures" soon after. As I said to Maciej, it's not so much saying this is flagrantly objectionable, but considering where the "fertile" adolescent mind goes with this when the teacher distributes this in class.
I think you have to try to look at this from the prospective of a teacher in an American high school trying to focus on teaching DTP/layout, having to potentially answer to an angry parent or the school board about the "pornographic materials" he is using. (And how would a female teacher see this?) Something else perhaps a bit controversial this year is a heading like "Guerrilla Warfare For Gyaan" -- many in Mumbai would not see the humor or cleverness in this. There are also some cultural things that I do not understand, yet were I presume OK for the original purpose. Software can be "muft and mukt". We have the "Seven Steps to Software Samadhi" (check samadhi on Wikipedia), and at least several of these seven steps do not seem to be talking about the Linux we know today. So we end up saying to the teacher, "Well, use the tutorial for yourself, then make your own using your own materials." If that were so easy, many of us might have done the same already. In the end, what I'm saying is that we don't need to censor ourselves and destroy this tutorial (or label it For Mature Audiences Only), but we can in addition create a more broadly palatable one. Greg
