Hi,
I used to work for OOo and Gnome at SUN until about 3 years ago, and one
of my
(many) jobs was to find and patch out easter eggs from the Gnome desktop.
The philosophy was that easter-eggs should never harm anything or anybody
(the computer its running on, or any person or organisation which might
feel
offended by it), nor should anybody or any organisation be promoted (a
link to the world hunger site had to be patched out, for instance).
Otherwise it was important to make sure that easter-eggs do not appear
by itself.
For instance, some funny things start bouncing on the screen because its
Friday 13th
or something like that. So, you really need to know what special thing
to do in
order to activate an easter egg. Otherwise you'll never see them. Easter
eggs
should never harm nor surprise.
I assume that a similar approach with the tolerance towards easter eggs is
taken at OOo.
armin
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Armin Theissen +32 (0)2 373.05.14
Royal Observatory of Belgium - Solar Physics Department - Brussels
"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition!"
- Woody Allen
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