On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:16, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 09:04 -0700, Mike Ramirez wrote: > > Xcuse the past post it was a miss click, me bad. > > > > But this wouldn't be a problem if people didn't feel the need to sue > > over the littlest observed slight. > > > > Trivial situations as the screensaver shouldn't be a problem big enough > > for anyone to get outraged about and feel they must complain. Just fix > > it to what they need. > > > > We need a middle ground on these types of situations because everyone is > > has different opinions as seen in this topic. This middle ground has to > > accepted by everyone and not think that their opinion is the absolute > > correct one. > > > > I agree, I wish people were not so litigious in this country; but it is > as it is and while I don't mind pushing the limits of decency at times, > I like to at least be aware that I am pushing the limits. > > The problem here is that what was probably inserted as a cute little > joke could have ramifications on a corporate user, not necessarily > because the user is affected, but because some easily-offended coworker > sees a screensaver that the user did not even know contained such > material. And, yes this is Fedora and not Red Hat Enterprise; but I use > Fedora Core 2 at work, not Red Hat Enterprise, and if it's going to have > something that might offend someone's delicate sensibilities, I'd like > to know so that I can decide whether or not to take appropriate > measures. Something akin to having to manually use the "-o" option to > fortune to get the offensive fortunes, would be fine with me. It's hard > enough to keep my Linux box below the Corporate IT radar, it doesn't > help to have the words "penis" and "vagina" displayed on-screen when I'm > not even around (now then, when I am around...) --- litigation is a side issue the xscreensaver/glsnake indeed exists in RH AS 3 - I have no idea if it has been 'cleansed' but I doubt it. It seems that it should probably be removed from standard distribution and maybe included as an 'extra' or at the very least, by default, deactivated. Craig
