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Re: Remove fortune quotes attributed to or providing admiration of Adolf Hitler [pr bin/52735]



On 19 November 2017 at 15:16, Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Andy Ruhl wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>> choice in the tonal sense, he was a brilliant orator and there are many
>>> useful quotes from him. Heck, he is often found on the list of most
>>> inspirational quotes. If anything, there should be more and better
>>> quotes from him in the database.
>>
>>
>> Yeah that's a step too far for me.
>>
>> Preserving the fortune program as it is for historical context is fine
>> for me. Adding more quotes from this jerk isn't productive. That would
>> send the wrong message. People can find these quotes elsewhere.
>>
>> In that sense I guess my position is preserving fortune as a
>> historical relic, nothing more. It's a snapshot in time of what the
>> developers of this stuff were thinking.
>
>
> I suggested that /usr/games just be moved to pkgsrc on irc. This makes a
> good argument for that move, to me, because there's no reason to be
> carrying around all that code if it's just for 'historic' purposes.

Yes please.


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