Obscene content in cygwin file.

[Francis Litterio]

Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> Francis Litterio wrote:
>
>> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>
>>> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Cygwin already provides the content.
>>>>
>>>> Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
>>>
>>> Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus that's
>>> his  consent.
>>
>> The user does not know he is giving consent to installing fortune when he is
>> doing a full install of Cygwin. There are over 500 hundred packages in a full
>> Cygwin install.
>
> 1) Ignorance is no defense

That's debatable in this case.

> 2) even doing a "full Cygwin install" (whatever
>    that means) fortune is not selected by default (it wasn't for me).

It was for me.  Perhaps you did not do a full install of Cygwin?
--
Francis Litterio
franl <at> world . std . com


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