| 1 |
Jane Lee wrote: |
| 2 |
> |
| 3 |
> On Sunday, February 27, 2005, at 03:13PM, Lina Pezzella <j4rg0n@g.o> wrote: |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
>>This thread brings up a very good point. There are little children |
| 6 |
>>using our distribution, and they should not be exposed to dirty words |
| 7 |
>>such as the one being disputed in this thread. There are other packages |
| 8 |
>>that are also questionable too. "BitchX" comes to mind, and "Evolution" |
| 9 |
>>is on the top of my die-package-die list. We certainly wouldn't want |
| 10 |
>>little children asking about that, now would we? |
| 11 |
>> |
| 12 |
>>In light of the above, I suggest that in the interest of being sure not |
| 13 |
>>to offend anyone, we remove the three aforementioned packages and any |
| 14 |
>>others that might be offensive. It's not censorship, it's decency. |
| 15 |
> |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> I'm sorry. I'm sure I'd be on the younger side of all the people actually reading all the stuff that goes on in this mailing list, being fifteen, but that someone would censor a package name because of a language that happens to have a vulgar (to some) name is unbelievable to me. Come on. I would think I get more exposure to offensive language from parents, friends, school and TV/movies, and seeing as how I've tried writing a few programs in brainfuck and I have used BitchX...I liberally sprinkle what I say with bad language when I see that there's a right occasion to do so. I'm sure I've said fuck more times in a day than there has been in this thread about one guy who just wants to use "brainfuck" in a package name instead of the censored version. |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> I think that younger people who have enough reading skills and technical ability to install Gentoo or sign up for a mailing list would be mentally capable of understanding that the use of language like that isn't necessarily meant to offend someone, but that it's just someone's creative spin on a name. |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> Sheltering "little children" from what is closer to being just another name more than offensive language is utterly pointless. |
| 22 |
> |
| 23 |
> Feel free to disagree. |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
> Cheers |
| 26 |
> Jane |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
It would appear you missed the sarcasm in Lina's contribution to this |
| 29 |
thread... |
| 30 |
-- |
| 31 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives