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. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
