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From: Francis Litterio <franl AT world DOT std DOT com>
Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:18:24 -0500
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
>>> Cygwin already provides the content.
>>
>> Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
>
> Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus that's his
> consent.

The user does not know he is giving consent to installing fortune when
he is doing a full install of Cygwin.  There are over 500 hundred
packages in a full Cygwin install.
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Francis Litterio
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