[TUHS] "What UNIX Cost Us"

[Kathryn Spiers]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 12:35 Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> wrote:

> Rich Morin wrote in <5A5107E4-06AD-4C2B-B590-15C17B301D44 at cfcl.com>:
>  |FWIW, I found this talk to be quite amusing and interesting.
>  |
>  |"What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)
>  |https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM
>
> That is the one who mutilated the FreeBSD fortune program no?
> (Despite it saying
>
>   The potentially offensive fortunes are installed by default on FreeBSD
>   systems.  If you're absolutely, *positively*, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt
>   sure that your user community goes berzerk/sues your pants off/drops dead
>   upon reading one of them, edit the Makefile in the subdirectory datfiles,
>   and do "make all install".)
>
> Nothing but a hollow lie ever since!
>
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
>

Or you could remove the offensive fortunes and make the default more
friendly for everyone...

Probably best not to re-litigate that change on this thread though.
-K

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