Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:00:26 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=" <des@des.no> Cc: Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r201477 - head/games/fortune/datfiles Message-ID: <201001061400.26082.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <867hrvgw2j.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <201001040916.o049GZ1Y013061@svn.freebsd.org> <4B4384E3.2080600@FreeBSD.org> <867hrvgw2j.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Wednesday 06 January 2010 9:13:56 am Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > Doug Barton <dougb@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." >=20 > 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 b= y a=20 political figure. =2D-=20 John Baldwin
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