> > Ahh put an "Aye" here too, IMHO it is far better to include than to
> > exclude.
>
> Depends on what. This is very partial reasoning.
> I am going to be the bad guy who says that in my eyes, religious
> material is much more perverted than sexually explicit stuff.
> I would prefer religious texts to be left out of contribs if some other
> things are censored.

I'm also a little concerned here. Informal questionnaires like this are always 
going to attract replies from proactive individuals who have a specific 
interest in pushing whatever the questionnaire is talking about. Out of all 
the replies, almost all of them have been from people who follow some type of 
religion. It's important to take this into account.

I am not religious in the sense of following a predefined path of religious 
guidance. However, I am not against the idea of others following religion if 
their activities do not affect others. Unfortunately, this goes against much 
of the grain of Christianity, which grew largely due to the activities of 
missionaries "converting" people. It could be construed that the inclusion of 
specialist software such as this would be the start of such a mission.

I'm afraid that my view on the inclusion of religion based software tools into 
a distribution such as Mandrake is not a positive step. It would be far 
better to set up a non-official Mandrake supporters web site for religious 
software, where the users are responsible for the maintenance of a set of 
RPMs that install correctly on each distribution of Mandrake that is 
released. Such a web site could also provide links/files to the texts that 
you speak of that are required for the software to be any use. Since it would 
be necessary to downloaded these files, it would make sense to put the 
software RPMs there too.


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