On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 01:06 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:58:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:26 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > > > perhaps to bring down the conversation to something more constructive, I > > > think we should base decision to have something or not in Debian: > > > 1. _NOT_ on personal belief (else we would probably end with nothing). > > > 2. _NOT_ on local laws (same comment). > > > > But we should be able to pass out Debian disks to children without > > fear of newspaper stories like "A young girl yesterday found > > pictures of naked women of a Linux computer disk" and be able to > > pass them around in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, etc without threat > > of the passer and the passee being beaten or thrown in jail by > > the Morality Police. > > Uh. If you live in a country where you could be thrown in jail because > someone gave you a CD-ROM containing almost 650MB worth of software of > which less than half a meg contains nudity cartoons, I think you have a > bigger problem than said nudity. That's beyond the scope of this discussion. However, I'd be *highly* agitated if someone gave my daughter a CD-ROM with *any* nudy cartoons. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. The enemy thinks and plans and strategizes, too.
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