Subject: Re: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, misc-bug-people@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/16/2006 14:32:49
On May 16, 3:10pm, dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca (dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca) wrote:
-- Subject: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
| >Number: 33495
| >Category: misc
| >Synopsis: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
| >Confidential: no
| >Severity: serious
| >Priority: medium
| >Responsible: misc-bug-people
| >State: open
| >Class: change-request
| >Submitter-Id: net
| >Arrival-Date: Tue May 16 15:10:00 +0000 2006
| >Originator: Daniel Weiss
| >Release: 1.2
| >Organization:
| Concordia University IITS
| >Environment:
| n/a
| >Description:
| Hi there, I'm a network technician at Concordia University. We use your netbsd fortune package with one of our net monitoring programs. There's a database of quotes that pops up at the start of every session which is quite enjoyable. However, one of the these quotes is by Adolph Hitler and is quite offensive to women and certain ethnicities. I hope that you have facility to remove this harmful quotation and replace it with something that is more appropriate for public use.
| Thank you for your time and attention,
The fortune database has the following 5 quotes from Adolph Hitler:
Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain
the last but one.
-- Adolph Hitler
I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether
it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether
he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right
that matters, but victory.
-- Adolph Hitler
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
-- Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
The very first essential for success is a perpetually
constant and regular employment of violence.
-- Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolph Hitler
Which one(s) do you find offending.
christos