Subject: Re: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/17/2006 15:05:02
The following reply was made to PR misc/33495; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:04:02 +0200

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 On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:55:01PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR misc/33495; it has been noted by GNATS.
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 > From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
 > To: Daniel Weiss <dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca>
 > Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
 > Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:53:04 +0200
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 >  On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:45:01PM +0000, Daniel Weiss wrote:
 >  >  You have made your position clear as crystal.=20
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 >  I'm sorry, but I don't think this is what happened. There is some=20
 >  misunderstanding going on. The offensive quotes have been "removed",
 >  for some value of "remove" that nicely fits the fortune environment.
 
 The misunderstanding is on what is offensive and what isn't.  David
 here claims that speaking the word "Hitler" is offensive and (I quote)
 "harmful".
 
 So apparently offensive quotes have been removed for some value of
 "offensive", too.
 
 >  Un-fortun(e)-atley now we'll have to censor this problem report out of t=
 he
 >  database, as we can't let negative customer feedback survive.
 
 We should only use proper Australian english for the project, too.  And
 I want it yellow.
 
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 Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
 "When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
 to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
 KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.
 
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