Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 01:48:51 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Cc: Gary Kendall <gdk@ccomp.inode.COM>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <7680.878636931@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Nov 1997 20:28:34 MST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103201159.29009G-100000@darkstar.home>
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> Is the core of your argement that you might have to remove > additional games in the future and so let's just get it all > over with now? Sick of those pesky lawyers and their cease > and desist letters? That's not the core issue, though it's one argument for their removal. Another is that they're basically useless and used by very few, my point that those few can still get them from ports under my suggested plan of action apparently being lost by everyone in their rush to see this issue emotionally rather than logically. > Sometimes the historical anachronisms come in handy, such as > rot13 (which seems to have vanished already). And which doesn't need to be in games in the first place - it was misfiled. Again, if people were thinking with their brains rather than their glads, this would become swiftly apparent to even the dullest child among us. > your way), I can't criticize you for wanting to reduce your > workload. But aren't you at least a little concerned that > your actions might drive "Snob Art Genre" to Linux? No. Jordan
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