Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:39:04 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jochen Toppe <> | Subject | Re: Not a bible thumper. . . |
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Bible Thumper? Anyhow....
# # Using defaults found in .config # * * Code maturity level options * Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers (CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL) [Y/n/?] System messages featuring finest profanity (CONFIG_VULGAR) [Y/n/?] * * Loadable module support * .... *ducks*
Here are my two bits: A natural amount of profanity in the appropriate places of the code ("Sun blows me"..) are fine, but that is no incentive to have a kernel which constantly curses, that would probably get on every users nerve sooner or later. Wasn't there a proposal to create a curse-kernel? Well, there still is that config option thing? curse patches? *ducks again*. Mamma mia, I should go now =) Where is this thread going anyways? Let it be up to Master Linus?
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Lex Spoon wrote:
> Khan Klatt wrote: > > > > In one paragraph you say you're against replacing curses with %(*^, and > > in the very next, you say that reputable companies make an effort to take > > them out when they DO distribute source. > > > > So, if we're going to make our source freely distributed, don't you think > > we should have the same considerations that our friends at Sun or SGI or > > BSDI do? > > (not directed at Khan in particular) > > The of a cooperation is to make money. The goal of politically > correctness is ugly politics. > > The goal of Linux should be to make a good OS, and vulgar comments > make the source code friendlier to hacker-types. How many people > here are honestly offended by vulgarity? Probably a large > number, like myelf, actually PREFER it. > > > Lex > > >
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