On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 21:06 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, August 06, 2004 11:54 PM -0400 Aaron Gaudio > <prothonotar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It might damage them for life when their dad gets fired at work because > > some tightwad got offended when they saw the words "erect penis" on his > > screensaver and now he's got to dip into their college fund to eat. > > But note how similar this is to not advocating liberty lest a user in the > PRC get in trouble with the PRC government. We may have to do it to get > Fedora past oppressive barbaric censors in the US, the PRC, and the Middle > East, but we should recognize the censorship for what it is. But since I do not live in the PRC or in an Islamic state, I don't really care about imposing their moral standards insomuch as they differ with my own. I suppose if the Fedora community or Red Hat itself wanted to make inroads into such markets, they would have to compromise with their cultural mores, and they (the community or the company, respectively) would have to decide if it was worth forking a new distro or incorporating the changes into the existing distro. In the latter case, I would probably just start using another distro. However, I don't think questionable material in some screensavers is enough of a political issue for me to switch distros. -- Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
