Adam Williamson wrote, On 9/19/2002 5:27 PM:
>On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:44, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
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>>>I see absolutely *no* need to turn Mandrake into a porn distributor.
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>>It could eventually be qualified of bad taste, but not of porn. Have you only
>>had a look at homepage ?
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>>Anyway, it has already been wiped out from contribs, and transfered to PLF.
>>And i see absolutly *no* obligation to install it if you don't like it...
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>I meant, it's an entirely non-essential package; there's hundreds of
>tools to monitor your CPU temp in exactly the same fashion without
>potentially offending some people. Given that situation, there's no
>reason to include one which *could* be potentially offensive. Good to
>move it from any official link with the distro then, I agree with that
>decision.
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Last I heard, Microsoft found Linux offensive, but I don't see Mandrake
shifting over to an MS-approved BSD-based distro. Loosen up, people.
It was a contrib, not in the main package group. (We lost the
seperation of Church and State in the US. Now we're going to lose it in
Linux, too?)
