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From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ** Stuffit ** vs Packit (really: what is the reason...?)
Message-ID: <741@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 15:29:06 GMT
References: <361@ut-emx.UUCP> <3260@bnrmtv.UUCP> <390@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
Lines: 19
Keywords: Stuffit, Packit.

>In article <3260@bnrmtv.UUCP>, takahash@bnrmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi) writes:
>> In article <361@ut-emx.UUCP>, jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (Chris Cooley) writes:
>> > Here ... it has been decided NOT to support StuffIt on our PD-library ...
>> > Because of it's name.
>
>> Out of curiosity, what is the 'official' reason why [StuffIt] is offensive?

Reminds me of a similar incident here.  We had a listing of mac error codes
on our PD disks, called 'deep shit error codes', and there were people
who objected to us listing the file as such.  Hey, that was the official name
of those error codes and we were not going to change them ;-).

 

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