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From: Kathryn Spiers <ksspiers@gmail.com>
To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] "What UNIX Cost Us"
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:00:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGM9nhRPfZA2s17ociJfUTyq6WGt1rsqq=796xGynRD9c3bZbg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200118203422.2c7o_%steffen@sdaoden.eu>

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 12:35 Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:

> Rich Morin wrote in <5A5107E4-06AD-4C2B-B590-15C17B301D44@cfcl.com>:
>  |FWIW, I found this talk to be quite amusing and interesting.
>  |
>  |"What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)
>  |https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM
>
> That is the one who mutilated the FreeBSD fortune program no?
> (Despite it saying
>
>   The potentially offensive fortunes are installed by default on FreeBSD
>   systems.  If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt
>   sure that your user community goes berzerk/sues your pants off/drops dead
>   upon reading one of them, edit the Makefile in the subdirectory datfiles,
>   and do "make all install".)
>
> Nothing but a hollow lie ever since!
>
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
>

Or you could remove the offensive fortunes and make the default more
friendly for everyone...

Probably best not to re-litigate that change on this thread though.
-K

>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-19 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-18 19:27 Rich Morin
2020-01-18 20:34 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-19  9:33   ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-19 20:00   ` Kathryn Spiers [this message]
2020-01-20 17:40     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-19 10:29 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2020-01-19 10:46   ` Tyler Adams
2020-01-19 16:33     ` Warner Losh
2020-01-19 18:16       ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-19 19:45       ` Adam Thornton

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