On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 09:44 -0500, Senthil_OR@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > Alan Cox > > > > We don't ship fortune and haven't for some time - Wanda needs > > reconfiguring > > > > This brings up a very important topic for discussion. > Namely why is Fedora not shipping fortune. historic reasons; some of the fortune quotes were not seen as politically correct or even offensive for some users/customers, and people somehow get really upset by that. (Remember the treads about that screen saver that made shapes that someone "recognized" as being one of his body parts; things like this get people really upset and thus the alternative to not shipping fortune is shipping it but vetting every single fortune text as seen from several different cultures)
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