Updated fortune-mod package

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Sun Mar 13 22:00:02 UTC 2005


Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> Michael, perhaps I should rephrase my email.  Are you saying that ideally,
> extras would remove (or at least relocate to the offensive directory) all
> fortunes which people are offended by?  I can see how RedHat may want to be
> PC at this day in age, but it seems like it could quickly get out of hand.
> Also, I forgot to thank you for checking out my package, so, Thanks!
> 

It was reasons like this that led Red Hat to remove fortune-mod in the 
first place.  It is just a complete waste of time spinning cycles to 
deal with political correctness when there are 5 billion uncontroversial 
real issues to fix.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1535248&tid=150
Free software!  Open Source!  No patent encumberance!  No problem?  Do 
we also want to waste time discussing if we want to allow GPL 
pornographic software in Fedora?

I suppose we need written policies about (possibly) offensive content so 
we don't repeatedly waste time arguing about this.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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