On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:16 -0400, Jenkins, Jeremiah wrote: > I agree that people these days take things the wrong way, as in the story > below. I would be more concerned if this was related to RHELx. But, since > fedora is for the community to use, and not supported in a "corporate" since > I do'nt see what the big deal is. THe last thing we need is a party going > after the developers to stop having fun that doesn't bother 99% of us, for > the other 1%, such as the one that started this thread, we have shown there > are ways around having the "penis" shown thus alleviating the problem Well, there are people using Fedora in the workplace; there is nothing in the Fedora notes that says "Warning: screensavers may contain offensive content". There are also people with children who maybe don't feel like explaining why their screen says "erect penis". Not to mention other non-corporate areas such as public libraries who might be turned off by such content. I'm all for programmers having fun, as one I know I like to, but IMO there's also nothing wrong with RH and Fedora making the default behavior of their system suppress this type of thing, once discovered, and in this case I support that decision. I also would be a little upset if all the sudden the web-collage only picked up porn site images (obviously, that's a little more extreme than what happened here). fortune has had the -o option for a long time, and in fact I think Fedora and RH doesn't even ship with the 'offensive' fortunes. That's the way to do it; let the developers have fun, but inform the users as much as possible and let them choose how risque they are willing to be with their systems. -- Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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