Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:46:00 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: bsd-lists@BSDforge.com Cc: "Cy Schubert" <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "RW" <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: The future of fortune(6) Message-ID: <201711270546.vAR5k0xB004578@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Chris H" <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> of "Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:34:52 -0800." <307f8e8d0ad15d2d00e74a9b602c8c19@udns.ultimatedns.net>
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In message <307f8e8d0ad15d2d00e74a9b602c8c19@udns.ultimatedns.net>, "Chris H" w rites: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 09:11:43 -0800 "Cy Schubert" <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> s > aid > > > In message <20171126163259.6fb55366@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@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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