Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:12:16PM -0500, mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > If you do that then you are catering to the lowest common denominator -- the
> > Lazarus Longs of the world, and not to the intelligent users who we want to
> > have using our distro.
>
> Heh, everytime I see "Lazarus Long" I cannot help thinking of the Robert
> Heinlein character. I'm sure he wouldn't approve of any censorware;
> it would catch all of his books ;)
> I wonder if it's really this guy's name.
>
> Nonetheless, last time I checked, Debian does not discriminate based on
> our users' intelligence. If users want this software, then it is our duty
> to cater to this. And if a developer wants to write the software, and
> support it, then why stop him or her? We're volunteers after all.
Besides "Lazarus Long", I haven't seen any users requesting this, only one
megalomaniacal developer.
As far as "why stop...", I'm not going to recap the entire thread for you,
go back and read it if you want to know why. Start with the braindead
proposal that would force participation from every member who didn't want his
packages on some sort of blacklist, up to and including the DPL.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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