Re: jive

[Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net>]

>>>>> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:31:45 -0500 (EST),
>>>>> Nicholas Merrill <lists@mojo.calyx.net> said:

Nicholas> I have wanted to bring this up for a while- Is it really in
Nicholas> the best interest of the mainstream acceptance of OpenBSD to
Nicholas> include 'jive' in the ports tree?

Rejecting an addition to the ports collection on the basis that it
might offend some is the beginning of an extremely slippery slope of
deciding what should and shouldn't be allowed to be contributed on the
basis of political interpretation of its content.

There are many programs floating around that do manipulation of text.
We've got dissociators, Newspeak interpreters, Hillbilly interpreters, 
etc.

We've got fortunes that those of a sensitive constitution might find
offensive. 

We've got commands that could be put into programs like this:

touch
finger
unzip
strip
mount
loop
mv
if count> variable(range between 50-500)
halt
fi
end loop
unmount
sleep

If someone finds it offensive, he can opt not to install it.  It's not
like it's installed by default.

-- 
Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/