fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Fri Jan 7 03:07:00 GMT 2005
Charles Wilson wrote:
> Yes and no, Corinna. Merely having them on the harddrive in a company
> computer could be construed as "creating a hostile work environment"
> -- leading to liability issues for the company and employment "issues"
> for the unsuspecting cygwin user.
Any company firing me for "creating a hostile work environment" for such
a matter as this is, in my book, not a company I wish to work for. YMMV.
> I'm definitely going to have to uninstall the fortune package at work
> -- probably even if the xxx content is "encrypted". My employer is
> lenient enough when it comes to "rogue" cygwin installations (e.g. not
> installed by the IT guys) but they'll get downright annoyed if
> employees create a liability problem for them by installing something
> that might offend another employee (e.g "create a hostile work
> environment")
What the hell is some other employee doing snooping around your computer
to view these files?!? To me *that's* a hostile work environment created
by the snooping employee!
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