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From: "Raye Raskin" <rayer AT pobox DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:12:57 -0800
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.


> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:13:40PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote:
>>The problem seems simple to me.  A filthy Limerick is not a Fortune.
>>
>>The program is misnamed.
> 
> Hmm.  Ever heard of "grep" or "ls"?  Fortune is much closer to being named
> something that makes sense than several other programs in the distribution.
> 
> cgf

If "grep" were named "delete" and everyone lived with it, then I
could understand with your analogy.  But the way it is, I can't.

Maybe someone should ask Torvald, not Red Hat.


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