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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:06:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "William R. Knox" <wknox AT mitre DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker
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Has anyone who is concerned about this read some of the, shall we say,
less than pure comments that developers will on occasion put into comments
in their code? I have come across a few that are, at very least, very
rude, if not downright indecent (depending on where you draw the line of
indecency). Is Red Hat (or, for that matter, the maintainers of an
open-source rich software distribution of any kind that carries programs
that require distribution of source code) supposed to either not use GPLed
or similarly licensed programs that contain ribald language in comments,
or to perform such a level of policing that they would have to have
several people devoted to that project alone?

As an aside, I also think that it has nothing to do with why I use Cygwin
or why I am on the Cygwin mailing list. It is nearly beyond my
comprehension that I allowed myself to even post on the subject.

If you don't like the fortunes, don't install them. Now, can we please
drop this? PLEASE?

			Bill Knox
			Lead Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:

> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:48:33 -0600
> From: Gary R. Van Sickle <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Obscene Content Tiebreaker
>
> Ok, clearly the voting process is hopelessly flawed.  When will people
> learn: Democracy doesn't work. </Homer>
>
> So, in the interest of putting this mess to bed once and for all, I ask you
> all to consider:
>
> WWRHD?
>
> That's right, "What Would Red Hat Do?".  But please don't speculate, there's
> no need.  We simply need a favor from Corinna: Corinna, could you please
> forward this issue to Red Hat's legal department, for their opinion on
> whether the company wishes to continue to shoulder this heretofore
> undiscovered liability?  We've all heard the stories of folks being fired
> for pr0n at work, it's no great stretch to imagine the obscenity at hand
> being used as an excuse to fire somebody with cause, and no further stretch
> to envision a subsequent lawsuit directed towards the outfit carrying the
> bulk of the (c)'s to Cygwin.
>
> --
> Gary R. Van Sickle
> Brewer.  Patriot.
>
>
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