Message-Id: <200501070227.j072R1Bh018516@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: "'cygwin'" Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file. Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:24:49 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, R.Powers wrote: > > > I don't think it has anything to do with Christianity or > Atheism or PC > > or Free Speech..or being Hip or Cool....or forcing anything on > > anybody.......... > > > > It's merely obscene crudity. > > > > If it's better suited to publication on the wall of a public toilet > > than on the wall of your living room, for all to ponder and > > appreciate, then why keep it. > > That already carries a judgment reflecting your values. > Certainly the people who included them in fortune thought otherwise. > If they had thought otherwise, they wouldn't have included them in the first place. As a licensed nerd mind-reader, I can tell you exactly the thought process involved here: "Teeeheeeheee! I'm gonna add a bunch of dirty limericks to my program! That'll compensate for my inability to obtain sex!" > > If someone's interest runs in that direction that interest > can easily > > be fulfilled elsewhere. > > You can say that about many other components of cygwin (say, games). > No you can't. Unless, say "games", includes similar obscenity. Jesus Tapdancing Christ you people, did I accidentally stumble into a junior highschool or something? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/