[LUNI] General Opinion question..

[Clyde Forrester]

At first my reaction was something like:
   Yes, I am annoyed and disturbed that someone has Christianity boiled 
down to just:
      1. Put the Bible on a computer.
      2. Ban pornography.
   It just seems like christians should have some better priorities.

But, now that I think about it, I can't think of anything else a 
christian OPERATING SYSTEM ought to do besides have a copy of the Bible, 
and try to keep the kids out of trouble.

Frankly, I'd like to see the mass marketing of a low-power, text-based 
system which would have versions of the Bible, Old Testament, Al-Qur'an, 
Urantia Book, Oahspe, Book of Mormon and/or whatever, and the ability to 
extensively annotate and cross-reference, and in as many languages as 
possible. Maybe they'll get around to doing this with one of those 
hand-cranked $100 MIT computers.

Samir Faci wrote:

>Okay, so here goes:
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>http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/1427222
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>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
>inappropriate material.
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>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?
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>Is it just me misreading this?  I might be overthinking it, we've had a
>philosophy geek meeting at the lug lately, I might be still in that mode.
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