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.

-- 
John Baldwin


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