Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 22:30:33 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conclusion of fortune(6) discussion Message-ID: <24028.1512513033@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <1512509473.1313677.1195210352.2DC7580C@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1512509473.1313677.1195210352.2DC7580C@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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-------- In message <1512509473.1313677.1195210352.2DC7580C@webmail.messagingengine.com> , Benno Rice writes: > I acknowledge the history that the fortune files embody but we’re >not living in that history any more. We’re living now. The world in 2017 >is not the world in 1987 or the world in 1997. To me this is the most convincing argument for getting rid of the old jokes: Fortune(6) as joke-supply only make sense if somebody humourously competent actively curate the collection of jokes. Distributing the same old jokes, year after year, release after release is a ritual, and it is certainly not funny. We can argue exactly how well curated the freebsd-tips are, but they are by definition fresh to their intended audience and even I will admit to having learned something from one or two of them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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