Could you please specify Which OS is this and fortune version , cos i'm running redhat here and i did a #grep koran /usr/share/games/fortunes/* and didnt find any .
And yes , contacting fortune Author , Linux distros and Our Linux community , and making a script that removes this from the fortune DB Good day Hi Mohamed , kurs , chahine :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:19:56 -0700 (PDT) To: General Arabization Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: fortune (falsifying the Holy Qur'an) > --- Mohammed Yousif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Stating this text as "The Koran" is not fair, the Koran is in Arabic, > > and no one can translate it, there are only "attemps" to do so. > > > [snip] > > > > I understand that whoever wrote this sentence didn't know that it is > > wrong but what we cannot forgive is that he/she forgot that this is > > a translation not the Koran and the difference is quite large > > Mohammed (and others), I highly suggest you be proactive in solving these > issues. Contact 'fortune's author (or its data maintainer) and indicate > to them the following - what they have now is, > > 1. Blatantly wrong > 2. Offensive > 3. Dangerously coerced (as it should note its a translation) > > and that we'd be more than happy to supply them with more factual data. > > It should also be noted that distro should be aware of such sensitive info > if they ever plan to enter Arabic markets. Mandrake, RedHat, etc should > make a conscious decision to NOT include such rubbish and should even > penalize such data generators. We can start by contacting them and asking > them for immediate action. > > Can the data's author be singled out ? Can the version of fortune which > includes this (and other) garbage be singled out ? > > Hope that helps. > > Salam > > - Nadim > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
