Bug 72197

Summary: RFE: Include "obscene" fortunes
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Wil Cooley <wcooley>
Component: fortune-modAssignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
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Description Wil Cooley 2002-08-21 21:43:12 UTC
Description of Problem:
'fortune' has no obscene fortunes

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fortune-mod-1.0-20

How Reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ /usr/games/fortune -o
/usr/share/games/fortune/off: No such file or directory
2. 
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Actual Results:


Expected Results:
Obscenities

Additional Information:
C'mon, can't we be professional AND have a sense of humor?

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-08-22 07:50:29 UTC
Absolutely.  Every day I am professional and also have a sense of humor.
Having some corporate customer log into their machine and be greeted
by some offcolor joke, or racist comment however is a very good way
to lose a customer.

Offensive fortunes have their place.  I install them on my own machines
as I'm not easily offended.  However we're trying to produce a
professional operating system which is used by corporate America,
and not just people who can take offensive jokes/comments with a 
grain of salt.

It is easy enough to modify the fortune-mod package to enable offensive
fortunes if you wish to have them.  It is not something that belongs
in Red Hat Linux by default however.  The number of people whom
miss offensive fortunes, or whom would stop using Red Hat Linux over
offensive fortunes not being present, are far smaller than the
number of people whom could potentially stop using Red Hat Linux
by being offended.

Offensive fortunes will not be re-enabled.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5514 ***