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Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.



On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:13:40PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote:
The problem seems simple to me. A filthy Limerick is not a Fortune.

The program is misnamed.

Hmm. Ever heard of "grep" or "ls"? Fortune is much closer to being named something that makes sense than several other programs in the distribution.

cgf

If "grep" were named "delete" and everyone lived with it, then I could understand with your analogy. But the way it is, I can't.

Maybe someone should ask Torvald, not Red Hat.


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