who wrote this
Dominic Fandrey
LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de
Mon Nov 26 09:18:00 PST 2007
eBoundHost: Artur wrote:
> 2) That's the thing, banning hitlers name is not at all what i'm trying
> to do. I think we should keep his quotes in the database of quotes, if
> that's what the community thinks is appropriate. What I'm suggesting is
> that we remove his name from the website:
> (http://www.freebsd.org/internal/fortunes.html) because it seems to
> innapropriately focus the attention away from the program (Fortune) and
> unecessarily makes the FreeBSD community seem like a bunch of
> insensitive jerks because we seemingly condone hitlers sayings.
> ...
Quote from the linked website:
> If an entry offends more than a couple of FreeBSD committers and does not
> contain any objective poignant historical reference, the entry should be in
> the offensive file.
I'm not a freebsd committer, but I do feel offended by Hitler quotes (being
German that is understandable, I think). And it's unthinkable for me to put
anything he said anywhere else but into offensive.
Just by being his words a quote is put into an offensive (and not amusing)
context.
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