It is strange indeed to find them here, although not unexplainable, the laws are different, one can buy "Mein Kampf" from any book shop in the UK (this startled me when I came here some 28 years ago - it was surrounded by "The Capital" and "The Communist Manifesto"...).
Anyway - in the proposed list I see ... -The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics -in general as no other can. - -- Wilhelm Reich ... which should stay; I would have kept also -What luck for the rulers that men do not think. - -- Adolf Hitler even if it is perhaps a proper quote, but is worth remembering and reminding people. Chavdar Ivanov On 18 November 2017 at 12:21, Rhialto <[email protected]> wrote: > It has come to my attention that FreeBSD has removed fortunes quoted > from Adolf Hitler a few days ago. I was very surprised that there > actually were such quotes! > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=325781 > or > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/0271df5714d9ce5274f82889febb6536a2fdba59 > > Then soon after that they went a bit overboard and removed basically all > fortune cookies: > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=325828 > > I tried to find any discussion on this in the FreeBSD mailing lists but > could not find anything, save something from 10 years ago where > obviously nothing was done in the end. > http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/Re-who-wrote-this-td4249321.html > > > I checked our fortune cookies database, and I was appalled to notice > that we do have the same quotes there. Apart from those quotes being > wholly inappropriate in a list of funny quotes, they are probably > illegal in Germany (where I now happen to live). > > I hereby propose to remove them (but not remove all fortunes). > I have sent a pr (bin/52735, http://gnats.netbsd.org/52735) with a > patch. > >>How-To-Repeat: > > $ fortune -m Hitler all > > -Olaf. > -- > ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X > \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. -- ----
