On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:43:49 +0000, Christian wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  Hi,
> 
>  The Mac OS X build of FlightGear 0.9.8, as available from  
>  <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/macflightgear/FlightGear-0.9.8.d
>  mg?  download>, contains a file called 'How to Get to Heaven.rtf', at

..huh???

>  the   root level (beside the OpenAL installer package and the
>  FlightGear   application directory), with bible quotes and
>  essentially religious   proselytizing. Here's a screenshot of the Mac
>  OS X Finder window for   the FlightGear-09.8 disk image:
> 
> 
> [fg098.jpg  image/jpeg (26830 bytes)]
> [text/plain (174 bytes)]
> 
> 
>  Attached, you'll find a copy of the 'How to Get to Heaven.rtf' file 
>  itself:
> 
> 
> 
> [How to Get to Heaven.rtf  application/rtf (3698 bytes)]
> [text/plain (958 bytes)]
> 
> 
>  Is it really a good idea to have essentially religious propaganda 
>  shipped in the semi-official build of FlightGear for Mac OS X? 

..hell no!  Point these assholes to any good Islamic site to show'em 
how these Religious Righteous Spammers Errs as humanoids.

>  In particular, I find this somewhat perplexing, considering the
>  amount of  discussion regarding commercial advertisements placed on
>  the FlightGear  web site - and those ads would at least have been a)
>  somewhat relevant  to FlightGear, and b) brought in some revenue to
>  support the FlightGear  effort itself, whereas this religious message
>  has neither been  discussed (to my recollection), nor does it have
>  anything to do with  flight simulators in general or FlightGear in
>  particular, nor does it  in any way support the project.
> 
>  Or to put is more succinctly: when I downloaded FlightGear and got an
>  unwelcome religious pamphlet thrown in my face, I got a seriously
>  bad taste in my mouth.

..aye, yeah.  Sabotage?  Or a troll?   Thanks anyway, Christian.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.


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