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Lina Pezzella wrote: |
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> This thread brings up a very good point. There are little children |
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> using our distribution, and they should not be exposed to dirty words |
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> such as the one being disputed in this thread. There are other |
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> packages that are also questionable too. "BitchX" comes to mind, and |
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> "Evolution" is on the top of my die-package-die list. We certainly |
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> wouldn't want little children asking about that, now would we? |
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> In light of the above, I suggest that in the interest of being sure |
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> not to offend anyone, we remove the three aforementioned packages and |
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> any others that might be offensive. It's not censorship, it's decency. |
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> Lina Pezzella |
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What you are suggesting is considered a slippery slope. If you remove |
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any packages based on the beliefs of a few, you'll eventually have to |
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remove a few more as others with different beliefs show up and announce |
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their offense. This will go on until our genetically modified crops |
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start using the Internet and announce that they're offended by the word |
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kernel on behalf of their corn brethren and there goes your entire OS. |
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The only way I could see around this would be to have the mirroring |
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system be given a list of potentially offensive names and have the sync |
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only grab them if the admins set the system to allow such packages. (Of |
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course, some parents will still bitchx because their brainfucked kids |
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edited the setting and we'll end up having to install credit card # |
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generators so we can put in a sequence of digits that supposedly prove |
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we're adults to authorize the downloads instead. The more ambitious |
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will just write one themselves, as the LUN formula isn't that hard a |
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concept to follow.) |
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