-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 February 2003 07:19 am, John Allen wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:00, et wrote: > > > I'll bet that until it was brought up NOBODY remembered that this was > > > in the man pages. It's been there since 1987 - not exactly a recent > > > addition. I'll bet that if this really WAS an issue, that it would have > > > come up sometime in the last 14 years - and as far as I've been able to > > > find it hasn't. > > > > > > There are always going to be things in the world that SOMEONE finds > > > offensive. > > > > > > My vote - if this ever came to a vote - would be to leave the man page > > > package alone. > > You are probably correct (in respect to the vote), and if Unix/Linux had > remained the sole province of Unix geeks (like us on this list) then it > probably wouldn't matter very much; but I bet that Mandrake is hoping to > sell to the general consumer, and corporations as well, after all they > probably don't have a hope in hell of selling to most of us on *this* list.
Why do you claim that Mandrake does not have a hope of selling to most of the people on this list? Sascha Noyes - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+S6QHgzJdfX+cTW8RAkhAAJ0dgfM2yFrW4hvhSAjF6+gr+6t5LQCgnlmI KCxwUi+yOF4G4aIiky+b4K0= =R5nN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
