The future of fortune(6)

[Cy Schubert]

In message <307f8e8d0ad15d2d00e74a9b602c8c19 at udns.ultimatedns.net>, "Chris 
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rites:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 09:11:43 -0800 "Cy Schubert" <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com> s
> aid
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> > In message <20171126163259.6fb55366 at gumby.homeunix.com>, RW via 
> > freebsd-hackers
> > writes:
> > > On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:59:52 -0800
> > > Cy Schubert wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Lastly. I'm not totally against games. My 4 and 5 year old grandkids
> > > > play games on game tablets. However I would never let my grandkids
> > > > even see what fortune spits out. Much of it was offensive. I would
> > > > have been ashamed had they seen some of the outputs.
> > >
> > > You have to try quite hard to find them, they aren't given by default,
> > > and:
> > >
> > > $ fortune -o 
> > > No fortunes found
> > > in /usr/share/games/fortune:/usr/local/share/games/fortune.
> > 
> > Let's take an example, when I was ~ 35 years younger than now.
> > 
> > A buddy of mine had a 3 year old son. His son would insert an MS DOS floppy
>  
> > disk and power on his XT clone computer. Once booted his 3 year old son 
> > removed the floppy and inserted his favourite game, entered the command on 
> > the command line and started playing. Kids today are much more capable than
>  
> > my friend's son was so many years ago.
> > 
> > We already have a port that can support it. Someone could repocopy the port
>  
> > to just install fortune.
> > 
> > It's 2017. If Red Hat doesn't support fortune why should we?
> OK this is the 2nd time you've said that, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to
> respond. :)
> FreeBSD is *not* Red Hat, nor any other "flavor" of Linux. Who cares if some
> other flavor of OS does, or does not "do it".
> Sorry. I *greatly* appreciate that FreeBSD is /different/ than all the Linux
> flavors, and would dearly hate that it felt that it should feel/be "Linux lik
> e".
> Over sensitive? Perhaps. But I simply couldn't resist.
>
> I'm done now. :)

Of course FreeBSD isn't a Linux distro however RH has probably learned that 
contentious issues like this aren't worth the risk and exposure and the 
cost of supporting such software. FreeBSD is a volunteer effort. 
Unnecessary software still exacts a cost even in an environment like ours.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy at FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org

	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.