svn commit: r201477 - head/games/fortune/datfiles
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 6 19:23:17 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 9:13:56 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > First off, thanks for sorting these, that's a step in the right
> > direction. :) However, a few quibbles. First, our rule is that
> > anything which might offend someone belongs in fortunes-o, and
> > political quotes are always in the category of "might offend someone."
>
> I don't see how the Rumsfeld quote could offend anyone. True, Rumsfeld
> is a politician (and not a particularly popular one in most parts of the
> world), but the quote itself is not political. It is a somewhat
> comically worded expression of an important truism that many people
> would do well to remember (cf. the classical "there are no unknown bugs
> in our software"). Would you have suggested moving it to -o if it had
> been a Steve Martin quote?
I agree that the quote isn't particularly politically partisan, just made by a
political figure.
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John Baldwin
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