BETA4: fortune -o gone?

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday, December 07, 2013 2:22:07 am Andy Farkas wrote:
> On 07/12/13 15:16, Shane Ambler wrote:
> >
> > so fortunes-o contained inappropriate material that was worth arguing
> > about but murphy-o isn't - guess it's too short to argue over?
> >
> > Now limerick and gerrold.limerick contains material that some would find
> > offensive, yet they are just fine where they are....
> >
> 
> SHHHHHH!!!!
> 
> Don't give people who are easily offended, yet continuously
> use the -o option, any more reason to complain!!
> 
> At this rate the -o option will be removed altogether!
> 
> Actually, they might even remove fortune(6) entirely:
> 
>  > fortune -m "dove of peace"
>  > fortune -m "Democratic Committee"
>  > fortune -m "people and the pigeons"
> 
> -andyf
> 
> ps.  Bad move core.

If you must know:

I would rather that fortunes-o had remained as-is.  The problem is some
developers started purging it of items they felt were personally too 
offensive.  (Not all people have the same standards regarding freedom of 
speech and all that.)  Rather than having long debates about what freedom of 
speech is or isn't and what things are "too" offensive for fortunes-o (irony 
in that statement is intentional), we elected to remove the file instead.  I 
certainly hoped that someone would pick up the file and place it in ports.  I 
would recommend the fortunes-o.real file from rev 228909.

-- 
John Baldwin