Fortune Program -Moving->RE: Wanda is broken

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 09:44 -0500, Senthil_OR at Dell.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Alan Cox
> > 
> > We don't ship fortune and haven't for some time - Wanda needs 
> > reconfiguring
> > 
> 
> This brings up a very important topic for discussion.
> Namely why is Fedora not shipping fortune. 

historic reasons; some of the fortune quotes were not seen as
politically correct or even offensive for some users/customers, and
people somehow get really upset by that. (Remember the treads about that
screen saver that made shapes that someone "recognized" as being one of
his body parts; things like this get people really upset and thus the
alternative to not shipping fortune is shipping it but vetting every
single fortune text as seen from several different cultures)

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