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SubjectRe: Insults in the kernel-sources
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, alan wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Tobias Hirning wrote:
> >
> > > Hi people,
> > > have you ever tried a
> > > grep "insult" -i -r ./*
> > > in the sourcetree of the kernel?
> > > (insult must be replaced by an insult)
> > > Haven't?
> > > So do and think about, because the you can find to much of insults in
> > > the sources.
> > > Tobias
> > > -
> >
> > Insult??? Do you mean "bad words???" Who defines what words are
> > "good" or what words are "bad"?
> >
> > Or maybe you just learned how to use `grep` and you want to
> > dazzle us all??
>
> Isn't this a distraction that comes up about once a year? Someone
> bitching about the comments in the kernel source...
>
> Turns out the Microsoft code has just as much profanity, if not more, than
> the Linux kernel source. (Of course, they have more to swear about...)
>
> I am more concerned about how Linus is going to keep working now that he
> is moving to someplace with good beer.
>

And it's closer to the devil's den.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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