The future of fortune(6)

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Johannes Jost Meixner <
johannes at perceivon.net> wrote:

> > With the removal of the fortune datfiles I think it’s time to have a
> discussion about fortune(6).
>
> Maybe this is a good moment to realize the change was contentious,
> should have been discussed before, and must be reverted.
>

Honestly, what's the alternative? We curate the F out of this file and have
people dog our every decision because it doesn't fit with the Republican,
Democratic, Green, Liberal, Conservative, Torre, Whig, Socialist,
Communist, Yankee, Confederate, Know Nothings, Bull Moose Party, Blues,
Reds, Pinks, Kill All The Humans, Walrus Supremacists, Bongo the Pet Seal
Horn Blowers or the actually evil Nazi[*] viewpoint? No, we can't be
unbiased because there's something in there to offend just about everybody.
Even the actual Nazi stuff people are whining about, and that's about as
clear cut an example of evil as exists in our times. If we can't agree on
even that, there's no hope for the rest. Do we want to spend project time
on curating an impossible tangle that our current dysfunctional political
climate (at least in my country) has become? Or do we want to spend time
upping our game on EFI, fixing VM issues, making the installer better, etc,
etc, etc. We're a technical project, primarily, not one that has a
political agenda.

Warner

[*] Don't like my viewpoint? I've proven my point. Not all these view
points are actually real.