[LUNI] General Opinion question..

[Branko Kotur]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 8:32 pm, Samir Faci wrote:
> Okay, so here goes:
>
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/1427222
>
> Ubuntu Christian Edition.  It's a remap of Ubuntu, includes all the stuff
> that comes with Ubuntu plus christian/bible software plus DansGuardian and
> other web filtering products that block and sensor pornography and other
> inappopriate material.
>
> What does everyone think of that?  I find it slightly.. annoying and
> disturbing to use something so open as Linux and OSS to put out a product
> that's meant to censor.  Doesn't this go against much of the OSS
> philosophy?

I don't think filtering/censoring content is really going against the OSS 
philosophy.  There are people that would find such things offensive.  Then 
there's the fact that many people have kids and you definitely don't want 
them accessing certain types of information.  This particular distro serves a 
specific purpose that I'm sure some will find useful and appreciate.